Chronic Pain
Journal of Pain Management & Medicine Pain Manage Med 2015, 1:1 www.iator.gr In the Past the Answer to Chronic Pain was "All in your Mind" Maria Dalamagka Chronic Pain A useful definition from Margo McCaffrey is the following: “pain is the description of the individual who is experiencing it and exist when he says so”. The International Association for the Study of Pain defines it as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience, combined with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage. The pain is transmitted through the body to the nervous system, where the nerve endings detect damage in a body part. The nerves transmit the warning through specific neural pathways in the brain, where the signals are interpreted as pain. Today specific pain can understand how the sensation of pain is generated: the way in which the nervous system, including the spinal cord, interacts with the brain, so as to create the sensation of pain. Knowle...