According to this view, pain is maintained through hypervigilance towards painful sensations and subsequent avoidance.
Most doctors view pain as a symptom of an underlying problem — treat the disease or the injury, and the pain goes away.
We tend to view pain as something to be palliated on the way to a greater goal -- fix the hip, treat the leukemia -- not an end in itself, which undermines our effectiveness in treating it.
We view pain as a biologically hard-wired signal of bodily harm that competes with other demands in the person's environment.
On his view, pain experiences both represent actual or potential damage in body parts and command certain actions involving those parts such as: "Stop!
According to the imperative view, pain does not correspond to the perception of bodily damage; rather it prescribes actions to perform.
Our results indicate that caregiver's identification of sources of discomfort at least partly overlaps with patient experience, with caregivers viewing pain and anxiety as the main sources of patient discomfort.
She says reigning theories view pain in general as a "biopsychosocial (that's biological, psychological and social) construct".
I don't question patient's motives for pain relief nor do I view pain as a natural part of getting older -- because it isn't!
Fundamentally, we do not view pain as something that is safe to engage with or that can lead to growth or healing.
