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Pain is Weird

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M	Dec '22	Pain is Weird — New section, The rhythm of throbbing pain.
S	Oct '22	Pain is Weird — Science update — Added a sidebar about the failure of phantom limb pain as a major example of pain without injury, citing Ilfeld.
S	Sep '22	Pain is Weird — Editing — And still more minor improvements and clarifications in several sections.
L	Aug '22	Pain is Weird — Revision — Many changes to acknowledge uncertainties and controversies about the hypothesis that pain can be out of proportion to sensation, or that it can exist without any tissue damage at all. Some new citations.
S	Jul '22	Pain is Weird — Editing — Many minor improvements and clarifications in several sections.
L	Jul '22	Pain is Weird — New section, pain asymbolia.
S	Mar '22	Pain is Weird — Science update, corrected an old citation — Replaced a citation to Beecher (on pain in wounded soldiers) with the correct original citation and a better summary. See Beecher.
M	Nov '21	Pain is Weird — New section — At last! This article has long needed a definition and explanation of nociception. It finally has one.
S	Oct '21	Pain is Weird — Editing — Some cleanup and clarification.
M	Oct '21	Pain is Weird — Update — New short section about the modern alternative to the “naive view” of pain, so basically a definition and explanation of the “neuromatrix.”
L	Aug '21	Pain is Weird — New section, pain as a conditioned behaviour.
L	Jun '21	Pain is Weird — Focus! — Migrated a large portion of this article to a new page dedicated to the topic of Mind Over Pain. It was just getting out of hand, trying to cover both the weirdness of pain and it’s mind-over-pain implications all on one page.
L	Jun '21	Pain is Weird — New section — Third of three new or rebooted sections about pain chronification and the types of chronic pain.
L	Jun '21	Pain is Weird — New section — Second of three new or rebooted sections about pain chronification and the types of chronic pain. This one particularly fills a gap I have known about for ages, and I’m delighted to finally fill it.
L	Jun '21	Pain is Weird — New section — First of three new or rebooted sections about pain chronification and the types of chronic pain.
L	Jun '21	Pain is Weird — Major editorial cleanup — Extensive rewriting and reorganization. This page has evolved haphazardly over many years and had turned into more of a collection of overlapping mini-essays and musings than a cohesive article. It has been reorganized quite a bit now.
M	Jun '21	Pain is Weird — More detail — Significantly more detailed “advice for professionals” in the final sections of the article.
L	2020	Pain is Weird — New section, clinical paralysis caused by “pain science” — About whether “Pain Science” is “paralyzing” clinicians (spoiler alert: not any good ones).
M	2018	Pain is Weird — Science update — Cited Stanton, an experiment demonstrating that VR-generated illusions can kill pain effectively, adding to the list of interesting but impractical examples of modifying pain with brain “hacks.”
S	2017	Pain is Weird — Science update — Cited Höfle et al on the effect of context on how much needles hurt, and Nilakantan et al on romantic analgesia.
S	2017	Pain is Weird — Science update — Cited Parr et al on the effect of the fear of pain on post-exercise muscle soreness.
L	2016	Pain is Weird — New section.
M	2012	Pain is Weird — Science update — Added references to and quotes from Atul Gawande’s excellent article, Scratching an itch through the scalp to the brain.
M	2011	Pain is Weird — Added content — Added Lorimer Moseley’s superb TED talk about pain, Why Things Hurt 14:33, and a couple of good quotes from it.
L	2011	Pain is Weird — Added content — Added dramatic case study of pain without injury: the man with the nail in his boot.
M	2011	Pain is Weird — Science update — Added interesting little item about how even microscopic organisms have complex pain experiences that vary with the circumstances.
M	2011	Pain is Weird — New section — Substantial new example, providing a great example from life: eye pain rather obviously amped up by worry.
S	2010	Pain is Weird — Science update — Added references to an excellent paper and a key source for this article by Moseley.