Which condition or response supports the concept that psychological and behavioral factors influence the physical perception of pain?
A. Most clients are anxious when pain is present.
B. Only the client can define the experience of his or her pain.
C. Clients may continue to experience pain even after spinal nerves are interrupted.
D. Pain is perceived in the brain and not in the actual physical location in which tis-sue damage is occurring.
C
If pain were purely a physical response to the presence of noxious stimuli or tissue damage, se-vering the connections between where the stimuli or damage was occurring and the area in the brain where pain is perceived would always result in the resolution of pain.
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