🧗🏾 🤚🏾 🐔 Types and characteristics of pain 👨🏻‍🔬 📌 👩🏻‍🚒

Pain is an unpleasant sensation that is accompanied by emotional experiences caused by real, possible, or psychogenic damage to body tissue.

What is the pain?

The significance of pain lies in its signaling and pathogenic functions. This means that when a potential or real threat of damage appears to the body, it tells the brain with unpleasant (painful) echoes.

Pain is divided into two types:

acute pains that are distinguished by relative short duration and a specific connection with tissue damage;
chronic pain, manifested during the period of tissue repair.

**What type of pain is it?**
Types of pain	Development reasons
Somatic	Damage to soft tissues, bones, muscle spasm
Visceral	Damage to parenchymal and hollow organs, overstretching, carcinomatosis of the serous membranes, ascites, hydrothorax, constipation
Neuropathic	Damage (compression) of nerve structures

According to the localization of pain there are:

anal
gynecological, menstrual, patrimonial, ovulation;
head, eye and tooth;
thoracic;
gastric;
intestinal;
intercostal;
muscle
renal;
lumbar
sciatic;
cardiac;
pelvic
other pains.

Headache

Headache is one of the most common types of pain.

It is divided into the following main groups:

vascular;
muscle tension;
liquorodynamic;
neuralgic;
psychalgic;
mixed.

Some of the groups have their own subtypes. But even despite this, the classification of pain by the nature of the course and the pathophysiological mechanism is used to make a diagnosis.

**Type and description of headache**
Title	Pain characteristic
Migraine	Throbbing headache, like an attack. Frequent relapses are possible.
Tension headache	The most common pain is in acute and chronic form. Symptoms include muscle tension, psychogenic or chronic cephalalgia.
Post-traumatic	Acute or chronic headaches resulting from a traumatic brain injury
Vascular headache	Appears as a result of changes in the state of the veins and arteries of the skull and brain: stroke, subdural or epidural hematomas, and the like.
Liquorodynamic	Symptoms include low or high blood pressure.
Abusian	It is the result of the abuse of drugs, narcological substances and alcohol or the cessation of their use
Beam pain	Symptoms: attacks of severe unilateral pain of varying duration and frequency
Metabolic disorder	Symptoms: hypercapnia, hypoxia, hypoglycemia
Associated with structural changes in the structure of the neck and head	It is the result of various diseases of the neck, eyes, skull, oral cavity and so on.
Neuralgic	It is the result of nerve irritation during the endoneural or extraneural process. The appearance of zones provoking a pain attack is characteristic
Other unclassifiable cases	Cases of non-traditional and “mixed” type

Pain in the heart

Heart pain causes a lot more cause for concern than others. After all, their consequences can be very serious.

Most often, heart pain is accompanied by:

weakness
heart palpitations;
heavy sweating;
feeling of lack of air.

The pain itself can be of a different nature:

spicy;
dumb;
stitching;
pulling;
crushing;
compressive;
constant;
paroxysmal.

**The main types and description of heart pain**
A type	Pain characteristic
Antiginous pain	An insufficient amount of oxygen and nutrients enter the heart. Pain occurs during physical exertion or emotional excitement. Symptoms : short-term pain extending under the shoulder blade to the left shoulder or lower jaw
Heart attack	Symptoms : prolonged intense pain, which is accompanied by profuse sweating, shortness of breath, blanching
Cardialgia	This type of pain can be a symptom of heart diseases such as arrhythmia, myocarditis, cardiomyopathy, and complications of intercostal neuralgia. Pain appears during various movements of the body.
Acquired Heart Disease	Relative insufficiency of coronary blood circulation and metabolic disorders in the myocardium occur. Symptoms : pain in the precardial region (middle and lower chest)
Arterial hypertension	Symptoms : prolonged aching pain in the precardial region caused by high blood pressure

Types of Abdominal Pain

Abdominal pain is a fairly common occurrence. It can be of a completely different nature: to be associated with diseases of the digestive system or caused by psychogenic factors.

**Characteristic of abdominal pain**
Pain classification		Description
By origin	Visceral	It manifests itself in the form of colic of varying intensity in the middle abdomen
	Parietal	Prolonged cutting pain, accompanied by tension of the abdominal muscles and increased pain during body movements
	Psychogenic	It is caused by the degree of human suspiciousness and is the result of a stressful situation.
	Neurogenic	Most often, burning and shooting pains that occur when the ambient temperature changes or when touching a pain point
Intensity over time	Increasing	Different intensities can be caused by both the type of disease and its features (severity)
	Constant
	Waning
	Intermittent
By the nature of sensations	Cramping	The result of limited narrowing of the gut
By the nature of sensations	Constant	The result of a progressive inflammatory process in the abdominal cavity
By duration	Sharp	It lasts from a few minutes to a day. Characteristic of new diseases (e.g., appendicitis inflammation)
By duration	Chronic	Lasts from three months or more. Characteristic for chronic diseases: gastritis, ulcers, gall bladder, pancreatitis

Gastritis pain. Description

A disease such as gastritis is a fairly common occurrence in the modern world. It is associated with inflammation of the gastric mucosa due to the appearance of Helicobacter pylori bacteria in the body, as well as such bad habits as smoking, excessive drinking, poor nutrition and stressful situations.

**Gastritis pain - a description of the forms of manifestation**
The manifestation of gastritis		Description
Acute form	Simple or catarrhal gastritis	Sudden and severe pain when eating poor-quality food or an allergic reaction to a product
	Erosive or corrosive gastritis	Sudden and severe pain in the abdomen when chemicals enter the stomach
	Phlegmonous gastritis	The result of purulent inflammation of the stomach
	Fibrinous gastritis	A rare form of gastritis that results from blood poisoning
Chronic form		It manifests itself in the primary disease or transition from acute to chronic

Symptoms of the appearance of acute gastritis:

acute paroxysmal pain;
heartburn;
vomiting
increased saliva production;
constipation or diarrhea;
tachycardia;
hemorrhage in the stomach.

Symptoms of the appearance of chronic gastritis:

loss of appetite;
bad breath from the oral cavity;
heaviness in the abdomen after eating;
gagging;
lack of hemoglobin.

Pancreatitis pain

Pancreatitis is the process of inflammation of the pancreas .

Symptoms

severe girdle pain in the left and right hypochondria and epigastric region;
vomiting
violation of the stool;
general weakness;
dizziness.

**Characteristics of pain with pancreatitis**
Type of pancreatitis	Description
Reactive	The result of pancreatic lesions in children
Acute	The consequence of excessive passion for unhealthy foods (fatty, spicy) and alcohol Symptoms : acute cutting pain of herpes zoster, vomiting, weakness
Chronic	The disease develops slowly with symptoms such as periodic aching pain in the stomach, vomiting, nausea

Pain in liver disease

Unpleasant sensations in the liver can be caused by the following diseases:

hepatitis
cirrhosis;
swelling
an abscess;
steatosis.

What are the pains in the liver? The nature of the arising pains under the right hypochondrium is aching and long, they tend to intensify even with small physical exertion, the use of harmful food (fatty, spicy, fried, sweet), alcohol and cigarettes. Nausea, belching, and an unpleasant odor from the oral cavity may also occur.

In severe forms of the disease, itching in different areas of the body, spider veins, yellowish skin color and peeling is added to the main symptoms.

Kidney pain

It is impossible to determine with accuracy whether pain is directly associated with the kidneys or is it just echoes of other diseases in the back and right side. To do this, you need to identify other symptoms:

pain is dull and aching;
one-sided pain;
increase in body temperature;
violation of urination.

**Causes and Description of Kidney Pain**
Causes	Description	Kind of pain
Kidney stones or urolithiasis	The stones enter the ureter and prevent the flow of urine, which because of this returns back to the kidney, which leads to its swelling	Wavy, very strong, can extend not only to the right, but also to the left side, lower abdomen, groin
Renal infection, pyelonephritis	Renal edema occurs due to infection with blood flow from any focus of inflammation: the boil, uterus and its appendages, intestines, lungs, bladder	Sharp, aching. It becomes almost impossible any touch in the area of pain
Kidney bleeding	May result from serious injury or disruption of the blood supply to the kidneys due to renal artery thromboembolism	Dumb aching
Nephroptosis or vagus kidney	The kidney goes down, and it begins to move around its axis, which leads to bending of blood vessels and impaired blood circulation. Women have a greater predisposition to this disease.	Dull lower back pain
Renal failure	The kidneys partially or completely stop doing their work due to a violation of the water-electrolyte balance in the body	At different stages, the pain can be different: from aching to acute

Muscle pain

Myalgia is a pain in the muscles, different in location and origin. What are the symptoms of this ailment?

With myalgia, pain is divided into two types:

aching, pressing, and dull muscle pains;
general muscle weakness, pressure pain, nausea, dizziness.

The appearance of a feeling of muscle pain is associated with nervous stress, psychological and emotional overload, overwork, physical exertion, exposure to cold and dampness. One or more factors cause cramping of muscle tissue, which, in turn, leads to constriction of the nerve endings, which provokes pain.

Also, there are frequent cases when myalgia occurs against a background of chronic fatigue, which leads to the accumulation in the muscle tissues of undeoxidized products of the metabolic process.

A more dangerous scenario is when myalgia in itself is a symptom of an infectious disease or rheumatism.

A special point to consider is muscle pain after training, which for many athletes is one of the criteria for successful physical exercises.

Types of muscle pain after training:

Normal to moderate - the most common pain that occurs after intense exercise. The source is microtrauma and microfractures of muscle fibers and an excess of lactic acid in them . This pain is normal and lasts about two to three days on average. Her presence means that you did a good job at the last workout.
Delayed pain that appears in the muscles a couple of days after exercise. Usually this condition is characteristic after a change in the training program: its complete change or increase in loads. The duration of this pain is from a day to four.
Pain due to injuries is the result of minor bruising or serious problems (such as muscle rupture). Symptoms: redness of the lesion, its swelling, aching pain. This is not the norm, urgent medical measures are required, which consist of at least applying a compress to the injured place.

Contraction pain

One of the symptoms of an approaching birth is labor. The description of pain varies from pulling to acute in the lower back and extends to the lower abdomen and thigh.

The peak pain of contractions occurs at a time when the uterus begins to contract even more so that the uterine pharynx opens. The process begins with visceral pain, which is difficult to localize. The cervix gradually opens, causing the water to drain and the head of the baby lowers. She begins to put pressure on the muscles of the vagina, the cervix and the sacral nerve plexus. The nature of the pain changes to intense, piercing and sharp, mostly concentrated in the pelvic area.

Contractions can last from three to twelve hours (in rare cases, even longer) and be accompanied by pain of varying degrees. A significant role in their feelings is played by the psychological state of the woman in childbirth - it is necessary to understand that this process brings you closer to meeting your baby.

And finally, most psychologists are inclined to believe that many pains are our excessive suspiciousness. Even if this is so, whatever the nature of your pain, it is better to consult a doctor and undergo a preventive examination.

Types and characteristics of pain