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Does the IASP definition of pain need updating?
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Mantra Meditation for Pain Conditions: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Pain research & management · 2026Pooled it
- Effectiveness of non-pharmacological methods in reducing pain in pediatric patients and the role of nursing. Systematic review.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Pooled it
- Origins and Previous Experiences from a Gender Perspective on the Perception of Pain in Nursing Students: Study Protocol.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Murottal and Classical Music Effect on Pain: Clinical Trial.Journal of pain research · 2025Article
- A consensus on the definition of positive animal welfare.Biology letters · 2025Article
- CCL2 Potentiates Inflammation Pain and Related Anxiety-Like Behavior Through NMDA Signaling in Anterior Cingulate Cortex.Molecular neurobiology · 2024Article
- Pharmacological Treatments and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in Patients with Chronic Pain.Pharmaceutics · 2023Review
- Electroacupuncture Alleviates Anxiety-Like Behaviors Induced by Chronic Neuropathic Pain via Regulating Different Dopamine Receptors of the Basolateral Amygdala.Molecular neurobiology · 2022Article
- Autoimmune Autonomic Dysfunction Syndromes: Potential Involvement and Pathophysiology Related to Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Silicone Breast Implant-Related Symptoms and Post-COVID Syndrome.Pathophysiology : the official journal of the International Society for Pathophysiology · 2022Review
- Nanoparticle-Mediated Photothermal Therapy Limitation in Clinical Applications Regarding Pain Management.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Pulsed Laser Acupuncture in the Treatment of Pain and Heart Rate Variability in Fibromyalgia Patients: A Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial.Journal of lasers in medical sciences · 2022Article
- Chronic Pain and Quality of Life in Maintenance Hemodialysis Patients in China: A Multicenter, Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of pain research · 2022Article
- Parturition in Mammals: Animal Models, Pain and Distress.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Review
- This is not the end: A long-awaited update of the definition of pain.Paediatric & neonatal pain · 2021Article
- Revisions to the IASP definition of pain-What does this mean for children?Paediatric & neonatal pain · 2021Article
- Comparison of Feature Extraction Methods for Physiological Signals for Heat-Based Pain Recognition.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Correlation between Biomarkers of Pain in Saliva and PAINAD Scale in Elderly People with Cognitive Impairment and Inability to Communicate.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Policy Implications for Pain in Advanced Alzheimer's Disease.Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses · 2021Article
- Development and Validation of the Health Literacy Assessment Instrument for Patients with Chronic Pain.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2021Article
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Abstract
The current IASP definition of pain has come under renewed criticisms recently. There is a new momentum for its revision as reflected by the fact that IASP has now a Presidential Task Force dedicated to look into whether there is enough warrant to update the definition. I critically review all the major criticisms of the current definition in detail, and raise new difficulties rarely discussed before. I show that none of the major criticisms has enough warrant to force us to substantially revise the current definition. Combined with the discussion of the new difficulties, there is nonetheless a need to restate the definition using slightly different terminology that will make the original intent of the current definition clearer and more precise. A restatement of the definition is proposed and its potential is discussed in light of some empirical questions that remain.
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