Segmental Phenomena, 2nd edition

Rising healthcare costs are forcing reflection on the use of resources. Like good listening (anamnesis) and close observation of the patient, segmental symptoms form simple and effective means of arriving at a diagnosis. Here, too, we see a lag in the scientific base. A poignant example is visceral pain (Jänig, 2014): disorders of internal organs can be accompanied by all kinds of manifestations that at first glance have nothing to do with the organ in question: Transmitted pain (misdirected pain) is one example. The new findings on plasticity (Woolf, 2010) make it understandable that segmental phenomena may be more pronounced in certain individuals than in others: each nervous system is shaped by individually specific life experiences. Given the few publicationsu.