Pain: friend or foe
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1999Author
Chinyanga, H. M.
Kalangu, K. K.
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Pain, the most urgent of symptoms usually signals the presence of potential or on-going injury to tissue which requires attention.The warning that pain provides is, therefore, a good thing and in a way friendly. When pain continues or resumes after the healing process of injury is complete, it is no longer signalling on-going tissue damage but becomes a disease in its own right. That, in essence, is the presentation of most chronic pain syndromes referred to Pain Clinics for investigation and treatment.
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Chinyanga, H. M. and Kalangu, K. K. (1999). Pain: Friend or foe. Central African Journal of Medicine, 45 (4),106-107.0008-9176
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