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1. 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.

2. 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

3. 1. Acute (<1 months)
2. Sub acute (1-6months)
3.Chronic (6 months <)

4. Acute pain can be important for the
body to tell the brain that there is
something wrong and help to avoid
harm.

5. 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..

6. 1. Nociceptive pain
(stimuli from somatic and visceral structures)
2. Neuropathic pain
(stimuli abnormally processed by the nervous
system)

7. 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

8. 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.

9. 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

10. 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
Chandragupta Marg, Chanakyapuri
New Delhi-110 021,India
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