PAIN

One in twenty people suffer some kind of pain regularly. Pain is associated with a wide range of injury and disease, and is sometimes the disease itself. Some conditions may have pain and associated symptoms arising from a discrete cause, such as postoperative pain or pain associated with a malignancy, or may be conditions in which pain constitutes the primary problem, such as neuropathic pains or headaches.

Understanding Pain

Everyone suffers from pain. Pain is caused by different elements in our lives. Pain is felt differently from one person to the next. We all do different things to cause pain. We all feel pain differently. Pain lasts longer from one person to the next.

Types of Pain

Nerve Pain

Pain that is caused by disease or damage that affects the nervous system is called Nerve pain (neuropathic pain). This kind of pain can be the direct result of nerve damage ( post-stroke or cut nerve) or could be the result of a virus (shingles).

Nociceptive Pain

This type of pain happens when you damage something in your body such as a broken bone or muscle tear.

In the damaged tissue the nerve endings send out signals to the brain through the spinal cord and interprets the feeling as pain.

Nociceptive Pain Types

There are two types of nociceptive pain. Radicular and somatic pain.

Somatic Pain

This type of pain is due to injured muscles and joints that travel up the spinal cord into the brain.

Radicular Pain

This type of pain is from nerve root irritation, as from a bulging disc or sciatica conditions.

The more a nerve is irritated the more you will experience this type of pain. These symptoms can include numbness, weakness, loss of reflexes or the feeling of pins and needles.