Different Types of Pain

What is pain?

Pain is “An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience arising from actual or    potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage”.

Pain has the dubious distinction of being the commonest symptom for which a person approaches medical care.

There are many sources of pain. One way of dividing these sources of pain is to divide them into two groups, nociceptive pain and neuropathic pain. How pain is treated depends in large part upon what type of pain it is.

Nociceptive pain

The body's nervous system is working properly. There is a source of pain, such as a cut, a broken bone or a problem with the spine. The body's system of telling the brain that there is an injury starts working. This information is passed on to the brain and one becomes aware that they are hurting.

Neuropathic pain

The body's nervous system is not working properly. There is no obvious source of pain, but the body nonetheless tells the brain that injury is present.

What are types of nociceptive pain?

Most back, leg, and arm pain is nociceptive pain. Nociceptive pain can be divided into two parts, radicular or somatic.

Radicular pain:

Radicular pain is pain that stems from irritation of the nerve roots, for example, from a disc herniation. It goes down the leg in the distribution of the nerve that exits from the nerve root at the spinal cord. Associated with radicular pain is radiculopathy, which is weakness, numbness, tingling or loss of reflexes in the distribution of the nerve.

Somatic pain:

Somatic pain is pain limited to the back or thighs. The problem that doctors and patients face with back pain, is that after a patient goes to the doctor and has an appropriate history taken, a physical exam performed, and appropriate imaging studies (for example, X-rays, MRIs or CT scans), the doctor can only make an exact diagnosis a minority of the time. Research has shown that most back pain that does not go away after conservative treatment usually comes from one of three structures in the back: the facet joints, the discs, or the sacroiliac joint. The facet joints are small joints in the back of the spine that provide stability and limit how far you can bend back or twist. The discs are the "shock absorbers" that are located between each of the bony building blocks (vertebrae) of the spine. The sacroiliac joint is a joint at the buttock area that serves in normal walking and helps to transfer weight from the upper body onto the legs.

Fluoroscopically (x-ray) guided injections can help to determine where pain is coming from. Once the pain has been accurately diagnosed, it can be optimally treated.

What is acute pain?

Acute pain begins suddenly and is usually sharp in quality. It serves as a warning of disease or a threat to the body. Acute pain might be caused by many events or circumstances, including:

•             Surgery

•             Broken bones

•             Dental work

•             Burns or cuts

•             Labor and childbirth

Acute pain might be mild and last just a moment, or it might be severe and last for weeks or months. In most cases, acute pain does not last longer than six months, and it disappears when the underlying cause of pain has been treated or has healed. Unrelieved acute pain, however, might lead to chronic pain.

What is chronic pain?

Chronic pain persists despite the fact that the injury has healed. Pain signals remain active in the nervous system for weeks, months, or years. Physical effects include tense muscles, limited mobility, a lack of energy, and changes in appetite. Emotional effects include depression, anger, anxiety, and fear of re-injury. Such a fear might hinder a person’s ability to return to normal work or leisure activities. Common chronic pain complaints include:

•             Headache

•             Low back pain

•             Cancer pain

•             Arthritis pain

•             Neurogenic pain (pain resulting from damage to nerves)

•             Psychogenic pain (pain not due to past disease or injury or any visible sign of damage       inside)

Chronic pain might have originated with an initial trauma/injury or infection, or there might be an ongoing cause of pain. However, some people suffer chronic pain in the absence of any past injury or evidence of body damage

What is the difference between acute and chronic pain?

•             There might be no known cure for the disease (such as arthritis or phantom pain) that is causing the chronic pain.

•             The cause of chronic pain might be unknown or poorly understood.

More articles on Pain Management are coming soon.

Fundamentals of PAIN ?

Receptor nerve cells in and beneath your skin sense heat, cold, light, touch, 
pressure, and pain. You have thousands of these receptor cells, most sense pain  and few sense cold. When there is an injury to your body-for example, surgery-these tiny cells send messages along the nerves into your spinal cord and then up to your brain. Pain medicine blocks these messages or reduces their effect on your brain at the same time it's like a slow poisoning for your body. They damage the nerves and the tissues completely which carries not only the signals but also our food to give us strength.
 
Thus we can conclude by saying that pain is a symptom, not a disease. That means the pain is likely being caused by something-something that can often be relieved and healed when treated by a health-care professional to a certain extend
 
What causes pain ?
Pain can have numerous causes.As explained by Dr.A.K.Ganguly  "pain is caused dueto 'insufficient flow of blood' to an affected area".
                               
What is the prescription for pain? 
First of all, medical science through out the world has got no permanent cure or solution for curing pain completely, due to lack of research and understanding ofPAIN. 
 
Beyond medication:
1.Accept yourself and your pain.  Fighting it will make it worse.  And questions like "Why me?" are pointless distractions from the life you have left to live. If you are very religious, you will find out "why you" later when god tells you    right?  So stop questioning god.  That's not your role.If you are less religious, you know that god won't answer you.  And if you are an existentialist, you know that there is no answer to that question.  You are in pain because you had a 1 in 5 roll of the dice and you lost.  And yes, that does suck.
 
2.Find the choices that you can still make.  Pain will make you feel powerless in many areas.  Don't allow it to hijack everything.  Keep as much of your life as yours as you can.  This means make decisions.  Live with intention.  Free will is a human prerogative.  When something like pain renders us helpless, we lose our humanity.  Our pain becomes metaphysical, and our suffering is magnified.Even the tiniest choices are medicine for the soul.  
 
3.Connect.  
a) Connect to yourself.  Seek what it is that you are here to do.Start doing whatever that is, and do it "with yourself." Living intentionally will help with self-awareness.  Unfortunately, the misguided shame of pain leads us to avoid   self-awareness.  Don't let it. 
 b) Connect to others.  Pain makes us want to avoid being around others.  Or to  complain or relate to others in a helpless manner.  Choose your interactions with others.  Decide who you enjoy, and cultivate those relationships in an intentional manner.Just as it can lead to avoidance, pain can also drive us toward deeper human compassion.  This is a gift to be shared. 
 
In recent years with the help of modern Science and Bio-technology an International Company Called OPTM HEALTH CARE, has founded a complete solution to disease   like : Artharitis, Varicose Vein, Spondylosis, Slip-Disc, Frozen Shoulder, Fibromyalgia, etc. Where upon without Oral Medecines, Operations, Injectsions, etc. a  patient can heal up completely and see the results over MEDICAL REPORTS (i.e. X-Ray, MRI, etc.).
                               
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Pain Management

The English word 'pain' probably comes from Old French (peine), Latin (poena - meaning punishment or pain), and in Ancient Greek (poine - a word more related to penalty), or a combination of all three.


Pain motivates us to withdraw from potentially damaging situations, protect a damaged body part while it heals, and avoid those situations in the future. Pain is an uncomfortable feeling that tells you something may be wrong in your body. Pain is your body's way of sending a warning to your brain. Your spinal cord and nerves provide the pathway for messages to travel to and from your brain and the other parts of your body.

In Medical Science pain relates to a sensation that hurts. If you feel pain it hurts, you feel discomfort, distress and perhaps agony, depending on the severity of it. Pain can be steady and constant, in which case it may be an ache. It might be a throbbing pain - a pulsating pain. The pain could have a pinching sensation, or a stabbing one.

Operation or Pain Killers are not the solution for curing the affected area for which you have pain in your body, because they cannot re-develop your damage parts, nor can they show you results over an X-Ray or MRI-Report, that your anatomy has come back to normal. This means the main cause, for which you are getting the pain will still exist and come back within a span of 3 to 4 years. next article coming soon.