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2025 Jan 09


Clin J Pain


39782005

‘It’s Not Written All Over My Face’: Constructing Chronic Pain as Invisible in Pain Clinic Consultations and Interviews.

Authors

Declercq J

Abstract

Historically in medicine and beyond, the understanding of and treatment of pain is based on finding tissue injury. The fact that for chronic pain, there often is no (longer) any traceable tissue injury, in combination with the fact that pain essentially is a private experience, poses a challenge for clinical communication. This paper therefore examines how pain is linguistically and interactionally constructed as invisible.