The first 2 paragraphs of my Cardiopulmonary (Pediatrics) Physiotherapy.

Lance Armstrong (2000) once mentioned, “Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place.” While pain can be temporary, I cannot fully agree with him, as the quote seemed to suggest that pain naturally subsides without intervention. In this essay, I will describe the various non-pharmacological methods of pain management, specifically in a critically ill paediatric patient.

In 1979, the International Association for the Study of Pain defines pain as an “unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage”. This means that pain is subjective and is formed through experiences related to injury in early life.