pain
Sign in to savePain is a distressing sensation often caused by intense or damaging stimuli. The International Association for the Study of Pain defines pain as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage."
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Pain is an unpleasant sensation that your body produces in response to harmful or potentially harmful stimuli, involving both physical sensations and emotional reactions. Understanding pain matters because it's a complex experience that affects how people function and respond to injury or illness.
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- Medical condition.image
- Wrist pain.jpg
- Medical condition.caption
- An illustration of wrist pain
- Medical condition.specialty
- NeurologyPain medicine
- Medical condition.symptoms
- Unpleasant sensory and emotional sensations
- Medical condition.duration
- Typically depends on the cause
- Medical condition.types
- Physical, psychological, psychogenic
- Medical condition.medication
- Analgesics
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- Etymology
- Classification
- Chronic versus acute
- Allodynia
- Phantom
- Breakthrough{{anchor|Breakthrough_pain}}
- Asymbolia and insensitivity
- Functional effects
- On subsequent negative emotion
- Theory
- Historical<!--linked from 'Patrick David Wall'-->
- Modern
- Three dimensions of pain
- Evolutionary and behavioral role
- Thresholds
- Visual analogue scale
- Multidimensional pain inventory
- Assessment in non-verbal people
- Other reporting barriers
- Diagnostic aid
- Physiological measurement
- Mechanisms
- Nociceptive
- Neuropathic
- Nociplastic
- Psychogenic
- Management
- Medication
- Psychological
- Alternative medicine
- Epidemiology
- Society and culture
- Non-humans
- Animals
- Plants
- See also
- Explanatory notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Pain is a distressing sensation often caused by intense or damaging stimuli. The International Association for the Study of Pain defines pain as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage."
Pain motivates animals to withdraw from damaging situations, to protect a damaged body part while it heals, and to avoid similar experiences in the future. Most pain resolves once the noxious stimulus is removed and the body has healed, but it may persist despite removal of the stimulus and apparent healing of the body. Sometimes pain arises in the absence of any detectable stimulus, damage or disease.