Physical Pain is the unpleasant feeling common to a headache and a stubbed toe. It typically consists of negative affect and aversion, and has location, duration, intensity and a distinctive quality (e.g., burning, stabbing). Pain is often accompanied by other bodily feelings, negative emotions and cognitive impairment.
The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) defines pain as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage".[1] A definition by Margo McCaffery, widely used in nursing since 1968, reflects pain's subjective nature: "Pain is whatever the experiencing person says it is, existing whenever he says it does".[2]
# ^ a b "IASP definition, full entry". http://www.iasp-pain.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=General_Resource_Links&Template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=3058#Pain. Retrieved 6 October 2009.
This often quoted definition was first published in 1979 by IASP in 'Vol 6 of the journal Pain, page 250. It is derived from a definition of pain given earlier by Harold Merskey: "An unpleasant experience that we primarily associate with tissue damage or describe in terms of tissue damage or both." Merskey, H. (1964) An Investigation of Pain in Psychological Illness, DM Thesis, Oxford.
# ^ McCaffery, Margo (1968). Nursing practice theories related to cognition, bodily pain, and man-environment interactions. LosAngeles: UCLA Students Store.
More recently, McCaffery defined pain as "whatever the experiencing person says it is, existing whenever the experiencing person says it does.”
Pasero, Chris; McCaffery, Margo (1999). Pain: clinical manual. St. Louis: Mosby. ISBN 0-8151-5609-X.
The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) defines pain as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage".[1] A definition by Margo McCaffery, widely used in nursing since 1968, reflects pain's subjective nature: "Pain is whatever the experiencing person says it is, existing whenever he says it does".[2]
# ^ a b "IASP definition, full entry". http://www.iasp-pain.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=General_Resource_Links&Template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=3058#Pain. Retrieved 6 October 2009.
This often quoted definition was first published in 1979 by IASP in 'Vol 6 of the journal Pain, page 250. It is derived from a definition of pain given earlier by Harold Merskey: "An unpleasant experience that we primarily associate with tissue damage or describe in terms of tissue damage or both." Merskey, H. (1964) An Investigation of Pain in Psychological Illness, DM Thesis, Oxford.
# ^ McCaffery, Margo (1968). Nursing practice theories related to cognition, bodily pain, and man-environment interactions. LosAngeles: UCLA Students Store.
More recently, McCaffery defined pain as "whatever the experiencing person says it is, existing whenever the experiencing person says it does.”
Pasero, Chris; McCaffery, Margo (1999). Pain: clinical manual. St. Louis: Mosby. ISBN 0-8151-5609-X.
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