Pain is a protective experience: It�s our brain�s siren call to get us to pay attention to what it perceives as a dangerous situation for the body. If you accidentally sprain your ankle while running, the brain tells you that it hurts so that you tend to your ankle immediately. If you didn�t feel the pain after spraining your ankle, you�d keep running and seriously damage your ankle. �Pain is one of life�s most sophisticated mechanisms, assisting us to successfully navigate our physical environments,� says Lorimer Moseley, professor of clinical neurosciences and chair in physiotherapy, School of Health Sciences, University of South Australia, in an email interview.
Sometimes, though, pain can become the illness itself. In 1931, French medical missionary Albert Schweitzer wrote that �pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself�. Chronic pain, or pain that extends for three months or more, is a disease of relentless anguish. According to a report published in May by Global Industry Analysts, Inc., a US-based market research firm, more than 1.5 billion people worldwide suffer from chronic pain, and though exact figures are hard to come by, doctors assume that a few million of those sufferers live in India. Read More
Sujata Kelkar Shetty, PhD, writes on public health issues and is a research scientist trained at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, US.
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