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Even though pain is a common occurrence everyone is familiar with, it is still difficult to precisely define. For each of us, pain has its own meaning and manifestation, directly related to our own personal lives and experiences. Complex and subjective, pain is recognized and tolerated by each of us in our own individual ways. Awareness of pain can be influenced by a variety of internal and external factors, and sensitivity and reaction to pain varies with each person.
The International Association for the Study of Pain defines pain as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage." The fact remains that pain is an alarm signal telling us that something in the body is wrong.
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