Pain is an unpleasant sensory and/or emotional experience caused by factual or possible tissue damage, or that is described in terms of tissue damage; there is an injury at some place in the body or one is at risk of occurring. Occasionally, however, pain arises without any tangible physical cause.

Pain starts at nerve-endings that are stimulated or damaged. That stimulation, electrical signals, are sent via the nerves to the spinal cord and finally to the brain.

Bristol-Myers Squibb markets a number of dosage forms of paracetamol in Belgium (soluble, ordinary tablet, odis - orodispersible tablets, melt on the tongue, intravenous form).

Bristol-Myers Squibb Belgium also participates annually in the Pain Awareness Week (in the framework of the European Pain Awareness Week) in partnership with the Belgian Pain Institute – UPSA.

For further information, please visit the following website:
Pain Awareness Week:
http://www.semainedeladouleur.be/ or http://www.weekvandepijn.be