Types of pain
Treatment Types pain – ETHOS HEALTH CARE
Anyone may feel pain in one or the other area of your body, such as back, abdomen or chest or you may feel pain all over, such as when your muscles ache from the flu. It is a feeling triggered in the nervous system. The following are the different types of pain you may feel in your body:
- Nociceptive pain – This type of pain felt after an injury to body tissues such as cuts, sprains, broken bones, bruising, surgery, and sometimes cancer. This is one of the most common types of pain. There are two types of nociceptive pain: somatic pain and visceral pain. Somatic pain comes from the joints, bones, muscles and other soft tissues, while visceral pain comes from the internal organs.
- Neuropathic pain – Neuropathic pain is a complex, chronic pain state that usually is accompanied by tissue injury. It is caused by a problem with one or more nerves themselves. It is often described as burning, stabbing, shooting, aching, or like an electric shock. Nerve pain can be related to a number of medical conditions such as diabetes, shingles, cancer and its treatments, carpal tunnel syndrome, or a spinal injury.
- Psychogenic pain – Psychogenic pain is a pain disorder associated with psychological factors such as depression and anxiety. The most common types of psychogenic pain are headaches, back pain, muscle pains and stomach pain. Treatment for psychogenic pain may include psychotherapy, painkillers and antidepressants.
- Phantom pain – It involves the sensation of pain in a part of the body that has been removed. Phantom pain appears to originate in the spinal cord and brain. Phantom pain occurs most often in people who’ve had an arm or leg removed, the disorder may also occur after surgeries to remove other body parts, such as the breast, penis, eye or tongue.
- Threshold pain – It is the point at which sensation becomes pain. It varies widely among individuals. For example, imagine someone is tapping on your arm and taps progressively harder. Eventually, the tapping will become hard enough to hurt, and that is when it has reached your pain threshold.
- Incident pain – Incident pain is pain that arises as a result of activity, such as movement of an arthritic joint, stretching a wound, etc Incident pain is a major problem for most patients with cancer pain.
