Pain: Contrast and Variations
There are three different types of pain to consider when handling the care of your patient. Acute pain represents sharp and instant pain that you may experience in your daily life. It is direct, and expresses what is going on with your body at that time. Chronic pain is a long and drawn out paying that may not be curable. It can be from a long-standing injury, surgery, stress or poor sleeping habits. Chronic pain will also be more prevalent in professional athletes, or senior citizens.
Referred pain is pain that is not delegated to the location it has been originating from. It can be caused by nerve damage, or disease related to other internal structures such as your organs. You may feel pain or discomfort in other parts of your body, but it is emanating from another source. Another thing that may affect the onset, and reoccurrence of pain would be gender. Women may experience different types of pain, as they go through physical changes when they go through childbirth (Dadabhoy, 2006).They are more likely to have specific types of referred pain, and chronic pain. Acute pain would be associated with the initial process, but there are other forms of pain to consider afterwards. Then they would also have their own set of chronic, and referred pain as they age, and different organs such as the prostate begin to change shape. This can affect the flow of urine, and interfere with sexual function and sleep patterns Clauw, 2006).
The management of pain will be delegated by the healthcare professional, and must be measured by the amount of pain, the person's current health condition, other forms of medical treatment and corresponding drugs, drug allergies, and personal preference. They're also needs to be a constant update of the healing process, and understanding of how to manage pain in regards to chronic suffering.
References
Dina Dadabhoy, Daniel J Clauw, (2006) "Therapy insight: fibromyalgia—a different type of pain needing a different type of treatment:
Published by: Nature Clinical Practice Rheumatology 2 (7), 364-372, 2006
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