Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage. Pain is an extremely complex phenomenon. Persistent pain affects emotional, autonomic and social function. This course titled Pain and Pain Control is aimed at developing the understanding oh students to enable them: 

  • Define pain.
  • Describe the mechanism of pain transmission & modulation.
  • Identify different types of pain
  • Conduct pain assessment in patients and
  • Identify common management strategies of PAIN