Meanings of Pain Volume 2: Common Types of Pain and Language
Experiential evidence shows that pain is associated with common meanings. These include a meaning of threat or danger, which is experienced as immediately distressing or unpleasant; cognitive meanings, which are focused on the long-term consequences of ha
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Meanings of Pain
Volume 2: Common Types of Pain and Language
Meanings of Pain
Simon van Rysewyk Editor
Meanings of Pain Volume 2: Common Types of Pain and Language
Editor Simon van Rysewyk School of Humanities, Department of Philosophy and Gender Studies University of Tasmania Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
ISBN 978-3-030-24153-7 ISBN 978-3-030-24154-4 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24154-4
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Foreword
As a clinician/researcher I have spent more than 20 years listening to more than 23,000 patients with persistent pain, trying to understand who they are and what is their problem and how can we help them. It has been a humbling and human experience to share their road with them. They (the patients) have struggled to describe their pain, their distress and their losses. More often than not their experience of the medical system has been frustrating and unrewarding for them and in some cases accentuated the problem. My experience as a physician is obviously influenced by my own cultural and personal take on pain, in my case a triple level spinal fracture as a medical student (and 4 years of back pain followed by recovery) and a C6 radiculopathy as a pain physician. I am one of the lucky ones—my nervous system seems hardwired to return to homeostasis over several months. My radiculopathy experience proved instructional to me on several levels—a complete failure of any medical treatment to make a difference to the agonizing pain, a hardening of my response to patients under my care (I more frequently ceased their opioids during this period) and ultimately a resolution of my pain when I took a medically
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