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In 1993, Paul Brand and Phillip Yancey wrote about the importance of pain in a book entitled, Pain, The Gift Nobody Wants. This was followed in 1997 by their book entitled, The Gift of Pain. Each book embraces the essential role that pain has in protecting the body from further harm. As an intensely unpleasant sensation, pain makes our bodies withdraw from the offensive malefactor to the security of an innocuous environment. So pain is good! Pain is a gift. Unfortunately, cells, tissues, and organs within our bodies may incur insults that take advantage of "the gift of pain" to protect themselves, and the body as a whole, but lose sense of the inciting noxious stimuli and continue to propagate the pain signals to the central nervous system. The pain becomes chronic, giving no choice to the body but to react with defensive mechanisms that affect our activities of daily living and our psyche. We can then either live with the pain until it subsides, if ever, disrupt the pain pathway, or treat the pain with various modalities, including pharmacologic agents. The maladies of pain can be very difficult to manage, making patients suffer until a root cause is identified and treated. The tr

Who reads The Maladies of Pain?

Author

Neumeister, Michael W.; Bueno, Reuben A.

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; W. B. Saunders Co., Ltd.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0094-1298)

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)