The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) has provided the most widely used definition of pain. The IASP has revised in 2020 the definition of pain as “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage”.1
When pain is not adequately controlled, it can interfere with many routine daily activities such as work and relationships. Pain thus has negative psychological consequences, since pain that is not under control may cause people to experience anxiety, fear, anger, or depression.2
Explore some of the most prevalent pain conditions, including: low back pain, postoperative pain, osteoarthritis, post traumatic pain.
Pain is a conscious experience, and interpretation of nociceptive input is influenced by memories as well as emotional, pathological, genetic, and cognitive factors.3
