title: A trimodal behavioral conceptualization of clinical pain.
abstract: A trimodal behavioral conceptualization of pain is outlined in the current article. It proposes that pain should be viewed as an interacting cluster of gross motor, cognitive, and physiological responses. Such a conceptual system is thought to contain the basic properties needed to incorporate current divergent views of pain held by medical and behavior science into a common conceptual framework.
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition; D003210:Concept Formation; D006801:Humans; D009043:Motor Activity; D010146:Pain / Q000523:psychology*; D011603:Psychophysiology; D012803:Sick Role