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An educational website to empower you with knowledge and tools to help you manage your pain. Here at MyPain we understand each person’s pain experiences are unique to them

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Pain Definition

“An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage,” and is expanded upon by the addition of six key Notes and the etymology of the word pain for further valuable context.

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  • Pain is always a personal experience that is influenced to varying degrees by biological, psychological, and social factors.
  • Pain and nociception are different phenomena. Pain cannot be inferred solely from activity in sensory neurons.
  • Through their life experiences, individuals learn the concept of pain.
  • A person’s report of an experience as pain should be respected.
  • Although pain usually serves an adaptive role, it may have adverse effects on function and social and psychological well-being.
  • Verbal description is only one of several behaviours to express pain; inability to communicate does not negate the possibility that a human or a nonhuman animal experiences pain (IASP)

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MyPain has been developed as an educational website to give patients the best chance to empower themselves with the knowledge, tools and support to help manage their pain. Each person’s experience of pain is different; therefore we have provided a range of information, for example; definitions of pain, tools, resourses, videos, workshops, courses and events which may be of interest to you.

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