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- Title
Chronic Pain as a Disease in its Own Right.
- Authors
Niv, David; Devor, Marshall
- Abstract
This article presents the declaration by European Federation of IASP Chapters that chronic pain should no longer be considered as a disease symptom. Acute pain is a direct outcome of the noxious event, and is reasonably classified as a symptom of underlying tissue damage or disease. However, in many patients pain persists long after its usefulness as an alarm signal has passed, and indeed, often long after the tissue damage has healed. Chronic pain in these patients is probably not directly related to their initial injury or disease condition, but rather to secondary changes including ones that occur in the pain detection system itself.
- Subjects
CHRONIC pain; SYMPTOMS; WOUNDS &; injuries; CHRONIC diseases; PAIN; PATIENTS
- Publication
Pain Practice, 2004, Vol 4, Issue 3, p179
- ISSN
1530-7085
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1111/j.1533-2500.2004.04301.x