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Medication. Analgesic. Pain is a distressing feeling often caused by intense or damaging stimuli. The International Association for the Study of Pain defines pain as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage."
Pain management is an aspect of medicine and health care involving relief of pain ( pain relief, analgesia, pain control) in various dimensions, from acute and simple to chronic and challenging. Most physicians and other health professionals provide some pain control in the normal course of their practice, and for the more complex instances of ...
Nociplastic pain aka central sensitisation is the consensus semantic term used by medical researchers to describe a third category of pain that is mechanistically distinct from nociceptive pain, due to inflammation and tissue damage, and neuropathic pain, due to nerve damage. [5] It may occur in combination with the other types of pain or in ...
Chronic pain or chronic pain syndrome is a type of pain that is also known by other titles such as gradual burning pain, electrical pain, throbbing pain, and nauseating pain. This type of pain is sometimes confused with acute pain [a] and can last from three months to several years; Various diagnostic manuals such as DSM-5 and ICD-11 have ...
Hyperalgesia. Hyperalgesia ( / ˌhaɪpərælˈdʒiːziə / or /- siə /; 'hyper' from Greek ὑπέρ (huper, “over”), '-algesia' from Greek algos, ἄλγος (pain)) is an abnormally increased sensitivity to pain, which may be caused by damage to nociceptors or peripheral nerves and can cause hypersensitivity to stimulus.
Pain disorder. Pain disorder is chronic pain experienced by a patient in one or more areas, and is thought to be caused by psychological stress. The pain is often so severe that it disables the patient from proper functioning. Duration may be as short as a few days or as long as many years. The disorder may begin at any age, and occurs more ...
Tenderness (medicine) In medicine, tenderness is pain or discomfort when an affected area is touched. [1] It should not be confused with the pain that a patient perceives without touching. Pain is patient's perception, while tenderness is a sign that a clinician elicits.
Psychology portal. v. t. e. Pain psychology is the study of psychological and behavioral processes in chronic pain. Pain psychology involves the implementation of treatments for chronic pain. Pain psychology can also be regarded as a branch of medical psychology, as many conditions associated with chronic pain have significant medical outcomes.