Understanding Pain

what is pain

What is Pain?

The simplest definition of Pain can be it is ‘whatever the patient experiencing it complains of’. It is an unpleasant experience and necessarily does not mean visible physical damage clinically or radiologically (X-ray or MRI). Pain is not just a physical symptom, a patient having pain tends to be more emotionally disturbed resulting from the psychosocial effects of long standing pain. Thus the pain extends beyond the physical dimension.

Common Types of Pain

The simplest definition of Pain can be it is ‘whatever the patient experiencing it complains of’. It is an unpleasant experience and necessarily does not mean visible physical damage clinically or radiologically (X-ray or MRI). Pain is not just a physical symptom, a patient having pain tends to be more emotionally disturbed resulting from the psychosocial effects of long standing pain. Thus the pain extends beyond the physical dimension.

Why Early Intervention is Important

A patient in pain cannot perform his/her routine duties (household work or office work) leading to further frustration and agony. Early treatment or intervention in bringing down your pain helps you in resuming Thus pain is not just an external injury symptom.

As The benefits of addressing pain before it becomes chronic. having pain should consult a physician at the earliest as prolonged the pain of the patient, difficult it becomes to treat it.