Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential
tissue damage. Chronic pain, with a prevalence of 20–30% is the major cause of human …

Acute pain is a physiological response that causes an unpleasant sensory and emotional
experience in the presence of actual or potential tissue injury. Anatomically and …

Background The clinically used methods of pain diagnosis do not allow for objective and
robust measurement, and physicians must rely on the patient's report on the pain sensation …

Understanding, measuring, and mitigating pain-related suffering is a key challenge for both
clinical care and pain research. However, there is no consensus on what exactly the concept …

Much of the literature on ageing is presaged upon a model of advocacy that seeks to combat
what is seen as the negative stereotyping of old age and old people. One consequence is …

Methods: Twenty-six healthy subjects received painful electric stimulation in both
controllable and uncontrollable conditions. Visual analogue scales and the “Pictorial …

Previous psychophysiological research suggests that pain measurement needs to go
beyond the assessment of Pain Intensity and Unpleasantness by adding the evaluation of …

Background It has been proposed that the expression of pain‐related suffering may lead to
an enhanced focus on oneself and reduced attention toward the external world. This study …

Aim To explore the patients´ experiences of pain when being cared for in the intensive care.
Design An exploratory, qualitative design was chosen. Method Interviews were performed …

In a healthy state, pain plays an important role in natural biofeedback loops and helps to
detect and prevent potentially harmful stimuli and situations. However, pain can become …