What is pain?
Everyone experiences pain sometimes, and it serves a useful function – acting like a warning signal, even though we may not always appreciate it!
Pain lets us know something is wrong with our bodies that needs attention, as well as protecting us and teaching us to recognise our limits so that, hopefully, we can avoid injury. But chronic pain can also have a severe impact on our quality of life.
Pain can be difficult to define and measure – after all, everyone’s experience of it is different. But, essentially, it
