The phrase "reflection of pain" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a representation or manifestation of suffering, whether emotional or physical.
Example: "Her artwork is a powerful reflection of pain, capturing the struggles she has faced throughout her life."
Alternatives: "manifestation of suffering" or "expression of anguish."
Eleven of 12 participants thought that facial expressions are a fair reflection of pain (one participant was unsure).
Given some individual lumbar spinal segments show greater degenerative changes than other lumbar segments, the notion of the lumbar spine as a homogenous region may not provide a true reflection of pain and function in this region.
Having determined the localization of pain, significant factors in distinguishing between possible functional dyspepsia and organic disease are the presence of loose stools, whether or not there was reflection of pain to the spine, the presence of bloating and the age of the subject.
This is also very problematic, because the pain behaviours are not always accurate reflections of pain intensity, and will also indicate other sources of distress, such as physiological or emotional distress [ 19].
I call attention to the effortless comic reflection of enduring pain, and the felicitous satirical phrase "Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone Bolívar".
We see in the balloons an honest reflection of the pain that death causes those who survive — the parents' tears, the friends' mouths pinched small with worry.
After tacitly accepting the decline in the dollar for years to help exports, Bush administration officials are now talking about the need for a stronger dollar, a reflection of the pain being inflicted on Americans by high gasoline prices.
Hopefully we will feel liberated enough to just be ourselves instead of a mere reflection of the pain of the past.
This may be a reflection of the pain and sadness that people feel about that history and not wanting to burden their young people, but in today's context the individuals I spoke with now clearly see that as a mistake.
"They know it's a tremendous statement that shocks people," Dr. Cornell said, "and that is a reflection of their tremendous pain and their drive to communicate that pain".
The pain of Delmore's poetry is only a pale reflection of the painful life from which it grew.
