The International Association for the Study of Pain defines pain as “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential
tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage” [
[1]
]. Spacek [
[2]
] further defines pain as “an individual, multi-factorial experience influenced by culture, previous pain
events, beliefs, mood and ability to cope.” It has also been noted that the inability
of an individual to communicate does not exclude the possibility that pain is present
and the need for pain relief. “Pain of recent onset and probable limited duration”
is considered to be acute pain, and chronic pain is considered to be “pain that persists beyond the time of healing of an injury and
frequently there may not be a clearly identifiable cause” [
[3]
].To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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Publication of this article was supported by the Collège International de Recherche Servier (CIRS).
STATEMENT OF CONFLICT OF INTEREST: The author has nothing to disclose.
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