疼痛是疾病的一种症状,疼痛学是研究有关疼痛的基础理论及临床的科学。近来,国内外对生理上的疼痛与病理上的疼痛,疼痛的强度及性质、疼痛的测定、疼痛心理学、疼痛治疗学、及至晚期癌症病人的疼痛等问题,进行了程度不同的研究,并取得新的进展。1962年,日本东大创立了疼痛门诊,以麻醉医生为主,开展临床观察和科研。随后成立了疼痛门诊研究会。1985年,易名为日本疼痛门诊学会,会员逐年增多。据调查,1984年日本74所医学院校中有71所建立了疼痛门诊,被调查的45所一般医院中,也有30所建立了疼痛门诊。 Pain is a symptom of a disease and pain science is the study of basic theories of pain and clinical science. Recently, studies on physiological pain and pathological pain, the strength and nature of pain, the determination of pain, pain psychology, pain treatment, and the pain of patients with advanced cancer have been conducted at home and abroad in different degrees Make new progress. In 1962, Japan’s East China set up a pain clinic, mainly anesthesiologists, to carry out clinical observation and research. Then set up a pain clinic research. In 1985, renamed the Japan pain clinic, membership increased year by year. According to the survey, 71 out of 74 medical schools in Japan established a pain clinic in 1984, and out of the 45 general hospitals surveyed, 30 also established pain clinics.