The mystery of pain /
"Why does scratching an itch feel so good? Why is pain from a mosquito bite preferable to the same pain from an unidentified source?Douglas Nelson provides the reader with a comprehensive, practical and highly accessible guide to the scientific understanding of pain. The book explores the diffe...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; Philadelphia :
Singing Dragon,
2013.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface : understanding that I don't understand
- A deeper understanding
- Alarms and fires and alarms without fires
- That which can be known, but not seen
- Nocere
- Modulation
- Central sensitization
- When the system goes awry : sensitization
- Meaning and context
- Attention
- Fear : memory and pain : fear and hypervigilance : fear of movement : diagnosis and fear
- Placebo
- Trigger points
- Phantom limb
- Social support
- Fibromyalgia
- The pendulum.