What Is the Point of Pain?

Pain is something that motivates an individual to withdraw from a damaging situation or potentially harmful stimuli. Also, it helps to protect the damaged part of the body while the heals. Usually pain will resolve when the nocice stimulus is removed and the body healed. There's also types of pain that emerge even in the absence of any apparent stimulus or damage or disease. These forms of pain are particularly clinically relevant because they result in quite a significant deterioration or quality of life for the patients experiencing them.