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ejop-134	Kizilhan, Jan Ilhan	Understanding and treatment of diffuse aches and pains of patients from tradition-bound cultures	2011	15	.pdf	application/pdf	5546	286	46	The development of pain treatment was advanced by the Arab-Persian physician Avicena, also known as Ibn Sina (980-1037), who developed causal therapeutic, local analgesic and mind-altering treatment methods for 15 kinds of pain, which he described in his Canon Medicinae (Zimmermann, 2000). 359-373 www.ejop.org Understanding and treatment of diffuse aches and pains of patients from tradition-bound cultures Jan Ilhan Kizilhan University of Freiburg Abstract Patients from collective cultures with a tradition-bound cultural background (e.g., people from the Middle East and some south European countries such as Italy and Greece), have a different perception of pain and different conceptions of healing, which up till now have not been sufficiently appreciated in modern multimodal therapeutic approaches.	cache/ejop-134.pdf	txt/ejop-134.txt