Mature Organism Model

[David Schwarz]

Louis Gifford wrote a paper on a model he developed called the mature organism model (he has some books on this as well but last I heard, they may be out of print). For myself, it has been a nice functional model for describing to people the momentary adaptations with stimuli, fear, pain, and behavioral feedback responses that Dr. Batson was discussing. I thought I would share in case it is helpful for anyone else.

Louis Gifford,
Pain, the Tissues and the Nervous System: A conceptual model,
Physiotherapy,
Volume 84, Issue 1,
1998,
Pages 27-36,
ISSN 0031-9406,
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0031-9406(05)65900-7.
(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031940605659007)
Abstract: Summary
This paper challenges current clinical models and systems for assessing and managing on-going pain states to incorporate a broader biological and therapeutic framework. Included is an acceptance of the current criticisms made towards a purely tissue based/modality based paradigm for pain treatment. The mature organism model proposed is presented as a workable conceptual starting block for incorporating mechanisms of pain into the broad science of stress biology and the biopsychosocial model of pain.
Keywords: Pain; biopsychosocial aspects of pain; stress

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