This paper challenges current clinical models and systems for assessing and managing on-going pain states to incorporate a broader biological and therapeutic framework. Included is an acceptance of the current criticisms made towards a purely tissue based/modality based paradigm for pain treatment. The mature organism model proposed is presented as a workable conceptual starting block for incorporating mechanisms of pain into the broad science of stress biology and the biopsychosocial model of pain.
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Gifford, L. (1998). Pain, the tissues and the nervous system: A conceptual model. Physiotherapy, 84(1), 27–36. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0031-9406(05)65900-7
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