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Interventional Strategies for Pain Management

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The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) defines pain as “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage.” While pain is traditionally thought of as a part of the body’s defense system, triggering a reflex reaction to retract or withdraw from a painful stimulus, in certain circumstances, it becomes a disease in and of itself.

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    Peter S. Staats

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Walia, K.S., Luthardt, F.W., Sharma, M.C., Staats, P.S. (2011). Interventional Strategies for Pain Management. In: Gloth, F. (eds) Handbook of Pain Relief in Older Adults. Aging Medicine. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-618-4_9

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