. Chronic pain can have a
             significant impact on the quality of person’s life as chronic pain can trigger
             psychological as well as physical and emotional problems that leads to feelings of
             helplessness and hopelessness as most chronic pain can not be cured (Goleman and
             Pain theories that I will discussing in this paper are specificity , pattern and gate
             control theory as these are the major theories that assist in explaining the concepts of
             pain . The modern perspective sees the concept of pain from a view that includes
             psychological factors but the earlier theories such as Specificity theory and Pattern
             theory were more focused on tissue damage as the cause of pain.
             The Specificity theory was originated in Greece .This theory was highlighted by
             Descartes in 1664 who expressed that the pain system as being like a
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