This article argues that visual images, particularly photographs, can provide an alternative
visual language to communicate pain. It suggests that selected photographs of pain placed …

Aim To ascertain the influence of images depicting different qualities of pain on unselected
outpatient pain clinic consultations. Methods A resource of 64 colour images depicting …

The challenge for those treating or witnessing pain is to find a way of crossing the chasm of
meaning between them and the person living with pain. This paper proposes that images …

BACKGROUND: Visual images may facilitate the communication of pain during
consultations. OBJECTIVES: To assess whether photographic images of pain enrich the …

social risk factors is needed to achieve continuing decline in tuberculosis incidence in
England. Globally, the average rate of decline in tuberculosis incidence is 1· 5% annually …

A variety of treatment outcomes in chronic pain are influenced by patient–clinician rapport.
Patients often report finding it difficult to explain their pain, and this potential obstacle to …

What is persistent pain? How do we communicate pain, not only in words but in visual
images and gesture? How do we respond to the pain of another, and can we do it better …

Pain is invisible and its experience highly subjective, making it hard to communicate. This
essay grew out of the Encountering Pain Conference at University College London that …

as if … visualizing pain Page 1 Pain has probably driven more people into the hands of doctors
than any other symptom in human history.Recipes to dull its effects survive from the Roman …

Photographic art, like the mirror, allows us to see ourselves, slowing down and freezing time
to allow reflection. In the context of pain encounters however, perhaps we need to question …