Pedia Pain Focus

Pain isn't simply a symptom of another disease or a result of another noxious or traumatic event. It's an independent entity in itself in majority of the situations. It's time we stopped approaching it with the Cartesian model framework.   Join me in this episode to learn about how and when a pain can be considered a symptom and when it needs to be treated like any other independent chronic diagnosis, and why that is important. Takeaways in This Episode The reason(s) I am even talking about this The biggest misconception about pain Why this misconception get propagated Classification of pain and why that is important What I mean by "not all pain is created equal" There's more to chronic pain than just "chronic pain" - classification of chronic pain as defined by IASP task force and the WHO Major differences between acute and chronic pain Mechanisms at play in acute and chronic pain The benefits of understanding these distinctions and classifications Links International Association for the Study of Pain (IA