Health Topic: Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Articles

Pain is typically defined by neuroscientists as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage (Sufka & Lynch, 2000).  Pain is highly associated psychologically with distress as an undifferentiated protest against anything that is unpleasant or aversive (Kalat & Shiota, 2007).  The function of pain is generally believed  to be the escape and avoidance to prevent further trauma and/or promote the healing processes (Williams, 2002).  Pain is experienced by everyone, but is expressed in different ways (Llewellyn,"