What is Pain, and how can I prevent it?

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An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage.

The inability to communicate verbally does not negate the possibility that an individual is experiencing pain and is in need of appropriate pain-relieving treatment. Notes: Pain is always subjective. Each individual learns the application of the word through experiences related to injury in early life.

Biologists recognize that those stimuli which cause pain are liable to damage tissue. Accordingly, pain is that experience we associate with actual or potential tissue damage.

It is unquestionably a sensation in a part or parts of the body, but it is also always unpleasant and therefore also an emotional experience. Experiences which resemble pain but are not unpleasant, e.g., pricking, should not be called pain.

Unpleasant abnormal experiences (dysesthesias) may also be pain but are not necessarily so because, subjectively, they may not have the usual sensory qualities of pain.

Please check http://www.webmd.com/pain-management/guide/default.htm for pain management and pain treatment. It includes all pain management methods. But it lack of complimentary therapy. For therapy, please check http://www.usadruglist.org/PainComplementaryTherapy/index.html.  The above links include following fields:

What is Pain Management
Pain Basics
What Is Chronic Pain?
Learn to Manage Your Rheumatoid Arthritis Pain
Causes
What Causes Chronic Pain?
Nerve Pain
Burns & Pain
Compressed Nerve (Pinched Nerve)
Are You at Risk?
Chronic Pain Conditions
Baby Boomers’ Aches & Pains
Related Guide: Joint Pain and Aging
Symptoms & Types
Symptoms
Back Fractures and Pain
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Tool: Is Neck and Back Pain Affecting Your Life?
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Related Guide: Back Pain
Chronic Neck & Shoulder Pain
Whiplash
Chronic Muscle Pain
Muscle Pain
Temporomandibular (TMD) Disorders
Trigeminal Neuralgia
Shingles Pain (Postherpetic Neuralgia)
Related Guide: Sciatica Pain
Arachnoiditis: Spinal Pain
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
Central Pain Syndrome
Phantom Limb Pain
Diabetes-Related Nerve Pain (Neuropathy)
Depression, Anxiety & Pain
Diagnosis & Tests
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Related Guide: Doctors Who Treat Pain
10 Questions to Ask Your Doctor
Tests
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Related Web Site: Quality-of-Life Scale for Pain
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Related Guide: Low Back Pain Treatment
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How Is Pain Treated?
Related Web Site: Finding the Right Pain Reliever
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Spine Pain and Treatments
Related Web Site: Cancer Pain: Myths and Misconceptions
Pain & Alternative Therapy
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Nerve Block Injections and Pain (Local Anesthesia)
Related Guide: Trigger Point Injections
Related Guide: Spinal Cord Stimulation
Spinal Drug Delivery Systems
Patient-Controlled Analgesia (PCA) Pump
Related Guide: TENS (Electrothermal Therapy)
Bioelectric Therapy for Pain
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Advanced Reading: Treating Cancer Pain
Advanced Reading: Cancer, Elderly & Pain Medications
Care
Chronic Pain Control: Pain Relief Without Pills
Related Guide: Chronic Pain & Lifestyle Changes
Video: Back Pain Relief: Acupuncture
Chronic Pain Help: Exercise & Arthritis Pain
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Your Pain Treatment Agreement
Related Guide: Cancer Pain Control
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Related Web Site: American Chronic Pain Association
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Related Web Site: The National Pain Foundation
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