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Pain (main heading)
Pain Physiology
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Pain Types & Mechanisms
- Acute Traumatic Pain
- Advanced Cancer Pain
- Allodynia a pain that results from a stimulus that is not normally painful.
- Central Pain Syndrome constant, moderate to severe pain due to damage to the central nervous system
- Central Sensitization Pain itself often modifies the way the central nervous system works, so that a patient actually becomes more sensitive and gets more pain with less provocation. That sensitization is called “central sensitization” because it involves changes in the central nervous system (CNS) in particular — the brain and the spinal cord. Sensitized patients are not only more sensitive to things that should hurt, but also to ordinary touch and pressure as well, which obviously should not hurt. Their pain also “echoes,” fading more slowly than in other people.
- Chronic Pain
- QST - Quantitative Sensory Testing
- Brain Retraining for chronic pain
- Chronic Back Pain
- Chronic Pelvic Pain
- Chronic Visceral Pain Visceral pain is pain related to the internal organs in the midline of the body. Unlike somatic pain — pain that occurs in tissues such as the muscles, skin, or joints — visceral pain is often vague, happens every so often, and feels like a deep ache or pressure.
- Complex regional pain syndrome - CRPS an uncommon form of chronic pain that usually affects an arm or a leg. Complex regional pain syndrome typically develops after an injury, surgery, stroke or heart attack, but the pain is out of proportion to the severity of the initial injury.
- Myofascial Pain Syndrome pressure on sensitive points in your muscles (trigger points) causes pain in seemingly unrelated parts of your body. This is called referred pain.
- Pain Disorder (Somatoform) chronic pain experienced by a patient in one or more areas, and is thought to be caused by psychological stress
- Hyperalgesia An increased sensitivity to pain, which may be caused by damage to nociceptors or peripheral nerves. Temporary increased sensitivity to pain also occurs as part of sickness behavior, the evolved response to infection.
- Neuropathic Pain caused by damage or disease affecting the somatosensory nervous system. Neuropathic pain may be associated with abnormal sensations called dysesthesia or pain from normally non-painful stimuli (allodynia). It may have continuous and/or episodic (paroxysmal) components. The latter resemble stabbings or electric shocks. Common qualities include burning or coldness, "pins and needles" sensations, numbness and itching
- Neuralgia (incl. Sciatic & Intercostal) pain in the distribution of a nerve or nerves
- Neuropathic Low Back Pain
- Trigeminal neuralgia / tic douloureux a common cause of facial pain
- Orofacial Pain Syndromes
- Atypical Facial Pain (AFP)chronic facial pain with no known cause
- Atypical Odontalgia chronic pain in a tooth or teeth, or in a site where teeth have been extracted or following endodontic treatment, without an identifiable cause
- Burning Mouth (Tongue) Syndrome a burning sensation in the mouth with no underlying dental or medical cause. No signs of disease are found in the mouth.
- TMJ - Temporomandibular Joint Disorder conditions affecting the jaw joints and surrounding muscles and ligaments. It can be caused by trauma, an improper bite, arthritis or wear and tear. Common symptoms include jaw tenderness, headaches, earaches and facial pain
Physical Locations of the Pain
Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome
Maigne's Syndrome / Thoracolumbar Junction Syndrome