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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hand Clin. 2016 Feb;32(1):91–98. doi: 10.1016/j.hcl.2015.08.012

Figure 1. Multidimensional aspects of pain.

Figure 1

Pain is an integrative sum of nociceptive input (i.e. signals from periphery during injury or surgery) combined with multiple factors that modulate this input to generate the complex and individual experience of pain.