For health professionals supporting chronic pain self management

  • Understanding Psychological Factors in Pain Management

    Understanding Psychological Factors in Pain Management

    Pain is defined by IASP (International Association for the Study of Pain) as ‘an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage.’ There are notes accompanying this definition and you can see them here click. Last week I defined some terms often used in association with…

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