Primus Best Pain Management Center -Types of Pain

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Pain management Purpose: This is an introductory presentation, for general awareness on pain both acute and chronic, its classification and symptomology. We at Primus Pain medicine Centre are a dedicated team of doctors looking after your pain problems via a multidisciplinary approach in order to help you win your battle against chronic pain.

What is pain? “Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage.� Or Simple terms any thing that hurts is pain. International Association for the Study of Pain, 1979

Types of pain 1. Acute (<1 months) 2. Sub acute (1-6months) 3.

Chronic (6 months <)

Acute pain Acute pain can be important for the body to tell the brain that there is something wrong and help to avoid harm.

Chronic pain Chronic pain is not a symptom but a disease itself, it is a persistent pain, beyond 6 months to years together, it leads to a complete biopsycho-social alteration in your life style and gets you in a vicious cycle of pain and disability..

Major Categories of Pain 1.

Nociceptive pain â—?

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(stimuli from somatic and visceral structures)

Neuropathic pain â—?

(stimuli abnormally processed by the nervous system)

Types of Pain Visceral Pain: Associated with internal organs. • Nature: Crampy, pressure, deep, dull to sharp, diffuse, referred. Somatic pain : Soft tissues/ myalgic. • Nature: Dull to sharp, throbbing, achy, localized

Neuropathic pain Neuropathic pain: Most severe form of chronic pain, leading to continuous burning, sensory loss or gain, dysfunction of the nervous system. Examples are Diabetic neuropathic pain, Peripheral vasular disease leading to limb ischemia and pain, Complex regional pain syndromes.

Neuropathic Pain Visceral Pain: Associated with internal organs. • Nature: Crampy, pressure, deep, dull to sharp, diffuse, referred. Somatic pain : Soft tissues/ myalgic. • Nature: Dull to sharp, throbbing, achy, localized

Neuropathic Pain Primus Pain Medicine Centre Visceral Pain: Associated withMarg, internal organs. Chandragupta Chanakyapuri New Delhi-110 021,India • Nature: Crampy, pressure, deep, dull to sharp, http://www.primushospital.com/primus-pain-medicine-centre.html

diffuse, referred. Somatic pain : Soft tissues/ myalgic.

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• Nature: Dull to sharp, throbbing, achy, localized

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