Words can hurt - how the language of ‘pain catastrophisation’ has had its day
People who live with chronic pain can feel belittled by the terminology clinicians use
Living with chronic pain can cast a long shadow over someone’s life, with the distress felt by some historically labelled by clinicians as ‘pain catastrophising’.
Nursing Standard.
35, 9, 69-71.
doi: 10.7748/ns.35.9.69.s21
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