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

Acute 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 bio-psycho-social alteration in your life style and gets you in a vicious cycle of pain and disability..

Chronic pain

1. Nociceptive pain

(stimuli from somatic and visceral structures)

2. Neuropathic pain

(stimuli abnormally processed by the nervous

system)

Major Categories 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

Types of 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

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

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