Publication at Second Faculty of Medicine |
2013
Abstract
Pain triggers affective, cognitive, and behavioral processes of adaptation. The primary function of these processes is protection of the integrity of organism, recovery of state before pain, or adaptation on new life conditions, such as living with residual pain.
Up to date, two groups of models have addressed an explanation of these processes: models of consecutive stages of psychological and behavioral changes in chronic pain, such as the model by Wade and colleagues (1996) and models based on operant and classical conditioning, such as the model by Linton and colleagues (1984).