Understanding Medical Language

Some of the words used on this site may be unfamiliar to you. We have aimed to define as many anatomical and medical terms as possible throughout the text. The glossary below, provides you with an easy reference to clarify terms you don’t understand.

is a method of educating patients about the neurophysiology of pain that aims to reconceptualize pain from an indicator of damage to an interpretation of input signals by the brain and nervous system.

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