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Chronic pain differs from
acute pain in that pain persists.
There
may have been an initial mishap e.g. sprained back, or there may be an ongoing
cause of pain e.g. arthritis.
Some people suffer chronic
pain in the absence of any past injury or evidence of body damage.
Common
chronic pain complaints include headache, low back pain, cancer pain, arthritis
pain, neurogenic pain.
Treatment includes
medication, acupuncture, local electrical stimulation, brain stimulation as well
as surgery.
Description
Chronic
pain differs from acute pain. The latter is a normal sensation triggered in the
nervous system to alert you to possible injury and the need to take care of
yourself. Chronic pain persists. Pain signals keep firing in the nervous system
for weeks, months, even years.
There may have been an initial mishap e.g. sprained back or serious
infection, or there may be an ongoing cause of pain e.g. arthritis, cancer or
ear infection.
Some
people on the other hand suffer chronic pain in the absence of any past injury
or evidence of body damage. Many chronic pain conditions affect older adults.
Symptoms
Common chronic pain complaints include headache, low back pain,
cancer pain, arthritis pain, neurogenic pain (pain resulting from damage to the
peripheral nerves or to the central nervous system itself) and psychogenic pain
(pain not due to past disease or injury or any visible sign of damage inside or
outside the nervous system).
Prognosis
Many
people with chronic pain can be helped if they understand all the causes of pain
and the many and varied steps that can be taken to undo what chronic pain has
done. Scientists believe that advances in neuroscience will lead to more and
better treatments for chronic pain in the years to come.
