What is pain rehabilitation:

Pain can be described as a distressing sensation in a particular part of the body. Because pain is a complex and subjective phenomenon, an adequate definition is difficult to develop. The International Association for the Study of Pain’s widely used definition states: “Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage.”[1]

Medicine treats injury and pathology to support and speed healing; and treats distressing symptoms such as pain to relieve suffering during treatment and healing. When a painful injury or pathology is resistant to treatment and persists, when pain persists after the injury or pathology has healed, and when medical science cannot identify the cause of pain, the task of medicine is to relieve suffering.

Examples of some types of Pain: (not limited to)

Intensed/acute Pain
Chronic Pain
Nociceptive Pain
Visceral Pain
Neuropathic Pain
Phantom Pain
Central and peripheral sensitization Pain
Psychogenic Pain
Breakthrough pain
Incident pain
Pain asymbolia and insensitivity

How can functional rehabilitation help?

Understand the complexity of pain is extremely difficult. A well trained doctor in functional rehabilitation may be able to rehabilitate patient’s pain by localizing the functional lesion. Using nutrition, clinical neuroscience and physical methods to “gate control” pain.