Introduction: It is helpful to begin from the premise that pain is not an object; it is a type of event. Pain is a way of being-in-the-world. Bourke 2013 As Bourke stated above, pain is an experience typically dichotomized in the healthcare field as acute and chronic pain. This classification is based on a few factors, including the time-frame of pain chronicity, the presence of an identifiable mechanism of injury (MOI), or a distinct pathophysiological/pathoanatomical proble