Keele described 'a simple method of minimizing errors of description by standardizing
terminology, and recording intensity of pain in a pain chart'. His work was inspired by Sir …

Of the various methods for measuring pain the visual analogue scale seems to be the most
sensitive. For assessing response to treatment a pain-relief scale has advantages over a …

Postanaesthesia care units used to echo with cries of patients in pain after general
anaesthesia. Each as-needed dose of analgesia was given only after permission of the …

To some patients even the severest of chronic pains, from long familiarity and incidental
advantages, becomes a treasured possession. When cured of it they become depressed, or …

A common assumption about pain is that it always results from the presence of underlying
organic pathology. In the absence of objective pathology, an individual's report of pain may …

Patients with cancer have diverse symptoms, impairments in physical and psychological
functioning, and other difficulties that can undermine their quality of life. If inadequately …

Until the 1960s, pain was considered an inevitable sensory response to tissue damage.
There was little room for the affective dimension of this ubiquitous experience, and none …

Presents an overview of the causes and management of pain in cancer patients. Statistics
on the percentage of cancer patients who experience chronic pain; Under treatment of pain …

Nociplastic pain is the semantic term suggested by the international community of pain
researchers to describe a third category of pain that is mechanistically distinct from …

In this lecture I want to unfold a subject which has attracted my attention for many years and
which I consider of general interest. What practitioner, indeed, is not interested in the …