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The management of pain

John J. Bonica
- 01 May 1954 - 
- Vol. 227, Iss: 1, pp 593
TLDR
In this article, a basic consideration of pain is presented, fundamental considerations basic aspects clinical aspects, and methods, procedures, and techniques for the symptomatic control of pain are discussed.
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This article is published in The American Journal of the Medical Sciences.The article was published on 1954-05-01. It has received 1521 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Chronic pain & Referred pain.

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How do you feel? Interoception: the sense of the physiological condition of the body.

TL;DR: Functional anatomical work has detailed an afferent neural system in primates and in humans that represents all aspects of the physiological condition of the physical body that might provide a foundation for subjective feelings, emotion and self-awareness.
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Gender variations in clinical pain experience.

TL;DR: Underlying biological mechanisms of pain and the contribution of psychological and social factors as they contribute to the meaning of pain for women and men warrant greater attention in pain research.
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Reflex sympathetic dystrophy: changing concepts and taxonomy

TL;DR: A revised taxonomic system for disorders previously called reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) and causalgia is presented and these revised categories have been included in the 2nd edition of the IASP Classification of Chronic Pain Syndromes.