IME ‘soreness’ is pretty different to ‘pain’. [EDIT: although I don’t know if this is just different because my brain knows that DOMS is fine but knee pain during squats is not]
There are plenty of different sensations that people sometimes call pain. Being able to distinguish those sensations and treat them differently is useful.
Not counting the sensensation that comes with soreness as pain is an option but it’s not how everyone uses the word pain and especially people without much experience of it will lump it into the general pain cluster when they encouter it.
IME ‘soreness’ is pretty different to ‘pain’. [EDIT: although I don’t know if this is just different because my brain knows that DOMS is fine but knee pain during squats is not]
There are plenty of different sensations that people sometimes call pain. Being able to distinguish those sensations and treat them differently is useful.
Not counting the sensensation that comes with soreness as pain is an option but it’s not how everyone uses the word pain and especially people without much experience of it will lump it into the general pain cluster when they encouter it.