What is pain?
Pain is a prevalent clinical condition or disease. The International Pain Society defines pain as an unpleasant somatic sensory and emotional experience associated with tissue damage or with underlying tissue damage. Some patients with chronic severe pain have become an unbearable ordeal for the organism. Since 2004, the International Pain Society has designated October 11 of each year as “Global Pain Conquest Day”. The World Health Organization has identified pain as the “fifth vital sign” after blood pressure, respiration, pulse and body temperature.
Classification of pain
1, traumatic pain: mainly pain caused by injury to skin, muscle ligaments, fascia and bone. Such as fracture, acute or chronic lumbar sprain, humeral epicondylitis, etc.
2, inflammatory pain: pain due to inflammation of biological origin, inflammation of chemical origin. Such as rheumatic, rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, etc.
3.Neuropathic pain: nociceptive hypersensitivity and abnormal nociception due to neuropathy and damage of any part of peripheral nerve to central nerve, such as postherpetic neuralgia, diabetic neuropathy, etc. .
4.Cancer pain: pain caused by tumor compression and infiltration of surrounding organs, nerves and nerves. Pain caused by bone metastasis of liver cancer, stomach cancer, pancreatic cancer, bile duct cancer and nausea tumor is common.
5.Psychological pain: pain caused by psychological disorders, often without exact somatic lesions and positive examination results. Patients often complain of circumferential pain or multiple intractable pains.
Description of pain
When the doctor understands the condition, please tell them these for a more accurate diagnosis.
1. History of pain. When did the pain occur and how long did it last?
2. What is the nature of the pain? Usually some of the following terms are used, such as spicy pain, pulling pain, burning pain, cutting pain, numbness, swelling, vague pain, dull pain, etc.
3. Factors affecting pain: What are the triggering or aggravating factors? And what are the relieving factors?
4. the site of the pain, this is very important. The specific site of pain should be described clearly.
5. the pain treatment received should also be described.
6.What tests have been done, this requires relevant information.
Common pain treatment methods
1.Medication.
2.Physical therapy.
3.Nerve block therapy.
4.Selective neurodesis.
5.Ozone nucleation.
6.Radiofrequency thermocoagulation.
7.Patient controlled analgesia (PCA).
8.Psychotherapy.
9.Chinese medicine, acupuncture therapy.