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.
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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
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Types of pain

• Acute (lt1 months)
• Sub acute (1-6months)
• 3. Chronic (6 months lt)

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Acute pain
Acute pain can be important for the body to tell
the brain that there is something wrong and help
to avoid harm.
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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
bio-psycho-social alteration in your life style
and gets you in a vicious cycle of pain and
disability..
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Major Categories of Pain

• Nociceptive pain
• (stimuli from somatic and visceral structures)
• Neuropathic pain
• (stimuli abnormally processed by the nervous
  system)

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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

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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.
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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

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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

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