Pain Quotes

“Pain is always accompanied by emotion and meaning so that each pain is unique to the individual. The word pain is used to group together a class of combined sensory-emotional events. The class contains many different types of pain, each of which is a personal, unique experience for the person who suffers.”
― Patrick Wall, Pain: The Science of Suffering

“vertebra. In the very common cases of back and neck pain with localized areas of tenderness, Skyrme Rees in Australia began an attempt to destroy nerves close to the vertebrae, and these operations have become common. Cuts were made in the region in an attempt to sever the nerves coming from the painful regions. After an initial period lasting some years, when the results were thought brilliant, the method fell into disrepute because of declining success and the obvious variability of which structures were cut.”
― Patrick Wall, Pain: The Science of Suffering

“As with the other conditions described, the natural history of local tissue damage spreads its effect, including pain, to nearby and distant structures by a linked series of separate mechanisms. This is nowhere more clear than in osteoarthritis, in which the disorder starts locally in a joint but spreads to nearby tissue while the nervous system, attempting to immobilize the joint, generates an abnormal gait and posture, which in turn stresses other joints.”
― Patrick Wall, Pain: The Science of Suffering

“event itself.”
― Patrick Wall, Pain: The Science of Suffering

“William James, brother of the author Henry, was a brilliant professor of psychology at Harvard at the end of the nineteenth century. He proposed that some of our emotions were an awareness of our general body reactions to an event, rather than to the”
― Patrick Wall, Pain: The Science of Suffering