...of psychological constructs. The IASP (1979) definition makes this explicit in describing pain as: "An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated...tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage." This focus on experiential qualities has a number of major implications for the management of pain...

...distinguish the pain after tissue damage from that due to emotions. Therefore, pain can be denned as, 'a sensory and emotional experience associated with actual...potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage.1 Our knowledge about the mechanisms leading to the sensation of pain is still scanty, particularly...

...sexual desire in patients with chronic pain. Physiological Impact on Sexuality Pain has been defined as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated...tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage" (International Association for the Study of Pain Subcommittee on Taxonomy, l979, p. 250). Chronic pain...

...and play an important role in the study of pain mechanisms [for review see 1,2]. Pain is defined as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage. Alternatively, it can be described in terms of such damage [3]. The sensory component of pain (nociception)...

...pain and/or discomfort and their working definitions include the following. II. DEFINITIONS Pain — An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated...potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage;7 pain in animals is an aversive sensory experience that elicits protective motor actions, results...

...assessment of pain The International Association for the Study of Pain has defined pain as follows: An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated...or potential tissue damage or described in terms of damage. (Merskey, 1986, p. S217) Pain is undoubtedly a subjective experience; it can be measured only...

...sufficient organic findings. The International Association for the Study of Pain has defined pain as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated...tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage" (1986, p. s217). This definition removes the direct tie between tissue damage and pain, instead emphasizing...

...objective measurement. 'Pain' has been defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain as 'an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated...tissue damage or described in terms of such damage'. It involves a stimulus, nociception and sensation, and also components of suffering and behaviour....

...emotion and feeling, scientists have been able to reach a consensus regarding the definition: pain is "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience...tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage." 18 The merit of this definition is that it not only covers pains with a somatic cause, but also psychogenic...

...be physiological or psychological as described in Table 14.1 D. PAIN ASSESSMENT 1. Pain defined a. "An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated...tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage" (1) b. "Whatever the experiencing person says it is, existing whenever he says it does" (2) 2. Characteristics...