chapter 9 (assessing pain)

Pain

an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, tissue damage

Psychological pain

Living with chronic pain has been found to be a significant risk factor for suicide

Psychosomatic or psychogenic pain

The process of somatization, when psychological pain becomes physical

Nociceptive pain

Pain caused by nerve receptors detecting harmful stimuli

Neuropathic pain

Results from damage or dysfunction of any level of the nervous system

Inflammatory pain

Increased sensitivity of perception and emotional response to noxious stimuli

Somatic pain

damage to musculoskeletal structures and soft tissues, such as bones, muscles, skin, and mucus membranes

Visceral pain

stimulation of the visceral organs in the chest, abdomen, and pelvis and the tissue that covers them

Radicular pain

stimuli at the nerve root at its connection to the spinal nerves.

Referred pain

A sensation of pain in a body region distant from the actual source of the painful stimulus

Phantom pain

Sensation of feeling pain in a part of the body that has been removed, such as a leg

Cancer pain

cancer may ave little to no pain, if there is pain its pressure from the tumor. Cancer treatments caues pain responses.

Acute pain

does not last longer than 6 months

chronic pain

last longer than 6 months, persistent

Central pain

develops from spinal pain, brain pain, stroke, MS.

Peripheral pain

pain from peripheral nervous system