Purpose: This is an introductory presentation, for

general awareness on pain both acute and

chronic, its classification and symptomology. We

at Primus Pain medicine Centre are a dedicated

team of doctors looking after your pain problems

via a multidisciplinary approach in order to help

you win your battle against chronic pain.

Pain is an unpleasant sensory and

emotional experience associated with

actual or pote tial tissue da age. Or

Simple terms any thing that hurts is pain.

International Association for the Study of Pain, 1979

1. Acute (<1 months)

2. Sub acute (1-6months)

3. Chronic (6 months <)

Acute pain can be important for the

body to tell the brain that there is

something wrong and help to avoid

harm.

Chronic pain is not a symptom but a disease

itself, it is a persistent pain, beyond 6 months

to years together, it leads to a complete bio-

psycho-social alteration in your life style and

gets you in a vicious cycle of pain and

disability..

1. Nociceptive pain

(stimuli from somatic and visceral structures)

2. Neuropathic pain

(stimuli abnormally processed by the nervous

system)

Visceral Pain: Associated with internal organs.

• Nature: Crampy, pressure, deep, dull to sharp,

diffuse, referred.

Somatic pain : Soft tissues/ myalgic.

• Nature: Dull to sharp, throbbing, achy, localized

Neuropathic pain: Most severe form of chronic pain,

leading to continuous burning, sensory loss or gain,

dysfunction of the nervous system. Examples are

Diabetic neuropathic pain, Peripheral vasular disease

leading to limb ischemia and pain, Complex regional

pain syndromes.

Visceral Pain: Associated with internal organs.

• Nature: Crampy, pressure, deep, dull to sharp,

diffuse, referred.

Somatic pain : Soft tissues/ myalgic.

• Nature: Dull to sharp, throbbing, achy, localized

Visceral Pain: Associated with internal organs.

• Nature: Crampy, pressure, deep, dull to sharp,

diffuse, referred.

Somatic pain : Soft tissues/ myalgic.

• Nature: Dull to sharp, throbbing, achy, localized

Primus Pain Medicine Centre

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New Delhi-110 021,India

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