PAIN
In day to-day life every human being is living with minor pains all the time. these pains are essential for our survival since they give feed back about the functioning of our bodily system. with this feedback we can adjust our postures, sleeping positions . Pain causes anxiety and fear among the patients.
It is learnt that in United States every year about $100 biliions are spent on pain remedies. twenty million tons of aspirin are consumed Annually by head ache sufferers alone.
There are about seven million sufferers of cronic pain.
Pain is basically a psychological experience and the degree to which it is felt and how incapacitating it is depends partially on how it is interpreted. Pain bearing capacity depends on the mental power. We can see the sports persons despite sustaining inuries on the field stay in the game by tolerating the pain.
the severity of pain can be assesed by observing the individuals pain behaviour.For example, during cronic pain there will be distorted ambulation or posure, negative affect, facial and audiable expressions of disress and avoidance of activity.
There are two types of clinical pain.
1) Acute
2)chronic
Acute pain comes due to injury that produces tissue damage and it will disappear after repairing the tissue damage. Acute pain is usually of less than 6 months in duration.
Chronic pain starts as acute pain but won't decrease withtreatment.
Different types of chronic pains:
a) Chronic benign pain:
It persists for more than 6 months. The pain varies in severity and may involve any number of muscle groups. Chronic low back pain and myofacial pain syndrome are example.
b) Chronic progresive pain:
It is associated with degenerative diseases such as skeletal metastatic disease or rheumatoid arthritis.
c) Recurrent Acute pain:
It involves a series of intermittent episodes of pain that are accute in nature but chronic.
Migraine headaches, tempero- mandibular disorder ( Involving the jaw) and trigeminal neuralgia (involving the spasms of the spacial muscles) are examples.
MOST OF THE PAIN CONTROL TECHNIQUES ARE EFFECTIVE IN MANAGING ACUTE PAIN.
BUT CHRONIC PAIN NEEDS INDIVIDUALIZED MULTIPLE TECHNIQUES FOR MANAGEMENT OF PAIN.
It is learnt that in United States every year about $100 biliions are spent on pain remedies. twenty million tons of aspirin are consumed Annually by head ache sufferers alone.
There are about seven million sufferers of cronic pain.
Pain is basically a psychological experience and the degree to which it is felt and how incapacitating it is depends partially on how it is interpreted. Pain bearing capacity depends on the mental power. We can see the sports persons despite sustaining inuries on the field stay in the game by tolerating the pain.
the severity of pain can be assesed by observing the individuals pain behaviour.For example, during cronic pain there will be distorted ambulation or posure, negative affect, facial and audiable expressions of disress and avoidance of activity.
There are two types of clinical pain.
1) Acute
2)chronic
Acute pain comes due to injury that produces tissue damage and it will disappear after repairing the tissue damage. Acute pain is usually of less than 6 months in duration.
Chronic pain starts as acute pain but won't decrease withtreatment.
Different types of chronic pains:
a) Chronic benign pain:
It persists for more than 6 months. The pain varies in severity and may involve any number of muscle groups. Chronic low back pain and myofacial pain syndrome are example.
b) Chronic progresive pain:
It is associated with degenerative diseases such as skeletal metastatic disease or rheumatoid arthritis.
c) Recurrent Acute pain:
It involves a series of intermittent episodes of pain that are accute in nature but chronic.
Migraine headaches, tempero- mandibular disorder ( Involving the jaw) and trigeminal neuralgia (involving the spasms of the spacial muscles) are examples.
MOST OF THE PAIN CONTROL TECHNIQUES ARE EFFECTIVE IN MANAGING ACUTE PAIN.
BUT CHRONIC PAIN NEEDS INDIVIDUALIZED MULTIPLE TECHNIQUES FOR MANAGEMENT OF PAIN.
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