Posts Tagged ‘Acute Pain’

Pain is best described as a sense – much like smell, touch, or sight, our sense of pain helps us interpret and navigate the world around us and respond to both potential and real threats via our brain’s processing of information. Pain is a preservation tool our nervous system employs to warn us of certain…

If the body is a machine and the brain is its operating system, then the brain needs to know when the body is malfunctioning. Pain is a part of that, representing our ability to sense when something is wrong physically (and in some cases, even mentally and socially). Pain is normal and natural, and in…