Within the physiology and the pathophysiology the phenomenon pain has since long time been explained from the ‘tissue damage – cable model’. Think for example of the five characteristics of the physiological response to tissue damage: rubor, tumor, calor, dolor and function laesa. Neurosciences attributed to the notion that there is not a one-to-one relation between tissue damage and pain. Perhaps even without being aware, therapists may apply neuroscientific insights in several complementary medicine therapies.
The lecturer will give an introduction in new (neuroscientific) insights in pain: mapping of types of pain, physiology and several other aspects of pain, pain models and pain treatment will be discussed:
- How was and is thought about pain?
- The role of the peripheral and the central nervous system in pain
- Recent insights in allodynia
- Psychological aspects versus dualistic pain concept
