Pain Resources

What is pain? The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) defines it as: An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage. The IASP definition means that pain is a subjective experience; one that cannot be objectively measured and depends on the person’s self-report. There can be a wide variability in how a person experiences pain to a given stimulus or injury. Pain can be classified as acute or chronic, and the two kinds differ greatly.

Resource: Pain: Hope Through Research from National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke