Symptoms of chronic pain
The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) defines pain as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential harm of some tissue," a painful impression is experienced in a body and transmitted to the brain by sensory nerves. This symptom may be caused or internal or external etiology. But in general it is said that pain is a sensation for the individual self-preservation.
The pain should be studied on the basis of its etiology if any, of the location, intensity, type, duration, irradiation, and the causes that increase or decrease and the extent to which it occurs. Pain can be acute or chronic depending on the time of evolution.
Chronic pain can lead patients to refuse treatment programs active and when the pain is more severe may lead to suicide. On this basis we found that chronic pain can present a number of symptoms that vary from person to person depending on the personality of these, as well as the characteristics of the pain involved.
Chronic pain is interpreted by patients as a normal phenomenon, because the distress and discomfort caused gradually become a common feeling is not pleasant, but it becomes tolerable. So that the patient can live with this pain and allows him to survive it.
In general we can say that the pain is recognized in the patient through muscle disorders such as mimicry, the cries and the patient's attitudes, their manifestations can be secretory and circulatory, tears, sweat, pallor, flushing, palpitations, as well as nervous type, represented by tremor, fever and convulsions. Chronic pain can also cause psychiatric disorders where the patient has depression, anxiety, fatigue, weakness and insomnia.
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