alleviate pain [ relieve pain | soothe pain | ease pain ]

Definition: The predominant complaint is of persistent, severe, and distressing pain, which cannot be explained fully by a physiological process or a physical disorder, and which occurs in association with emotional conflict or psychosocial problems that are sufficient to allow the conclusion that they are the main causative influences. The result is usually a marked increase in support and attention, either personal or medical. Pain presumed to be of psychogenic origin occurring during the course of depressive disorders or schizophrenia should not be included here. | Psychalgia Psychogenic:backache | headache | Somatoform pain disorder

phantom limb pain | phantom pain

locked-in syndrome | cerebromedullospinal disconnection | de-efferented state | ventral pontine syndrome | pseudocoma

Definition: Physical symptoms compatible with and originally due to a confirmed physical disorder, disease or disability become exaggerated or prolonged due to the psychological state of the patient. The patient is commonly distressed by this pain or disability, and is often preoccupied with worries, which may be justified, of the possibility of prolonged or progressive disability or pain. | Compensation neurosis

Definition: A disorder characterized by emotional incontinence or lability, fatigability, and a variety of unpleasant physical sensations (e.g. dizziness) and pains, but arising as a consequence of an organic disorder.