Types of Pain
What is pain?
- An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage.2
- Pain is personal and subjective to each individual.2
Types of Pain
Acute Pain is pain of sudden onset, usually derived from a single event. It is of a short duration, lasting from a few days to less than 3-6 months as associated with healing. It is a warning that something is either wrong within the body or that a hurtful activity should be avoided to prevent further or repeat damage.3
Chronic Pain is pain lasting longer than expected healing time. It may last for many months, years, or a lifetime, and may be constant or experienced in intervals.3
Breakthrough Pain flares up or emerges through the comfort state obtained from drug and/or non-drug pain relief methods.3
Neuropathic Pain is started or caused from the alteration of the nervous system.3
Nociceptive Pain. Pain that results from a stimulus that is damaging or potentially damaging to normal tissue. The nervous system is intact.1
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