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Article: Pain Management.
- Article from:
- Journal of Neuroscience Nursing
- Article date:
- August 1, 1999
- Author:
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Pain Management
Regardless of its cause, pain is one of the main clinical challenges within most disciplines, including the clinical neurosciences. Perception and expression of pain is highly complex and dependent not only on the actual level of pain stimulus, but also, psychological, cultural and social factors. In addition, the pain phenomenon per se is associated with a multitude of aspects, for example intensity, temporal variation, bodily distribution and different qualitative phenotypic expressions.[3,7] In order to provide appropriate pain management and evaluate the outcome following different interventions, several pain assessment tools have been ...