Editorial: Insight in non-pharmacological treatment of pain—2023
Geoffrey Dover · 2024
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Description
Geoffrey Dover opens an editorial from two thousand twenty-four with a memory from a rural sports camp in northern Ontario. Two boys aged twelve fell the same way while playing basketball, a week apart. Both broke the same wrist bone in what looked like an identical pattern.
Yet their pain could not have differed more. One boy sat calm and said he was fine though his wrist hurt a lot. The other screamed, turned pale, and nearly fainted. Dover uses the contrast to question the simple biomedical view of pain he was taught as a student. The editorial frames a wider look at non-drug treatment of pain, where the person's experience matters as much as the injury.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Geoffrey Dover |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 6 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |