How can you understand the Pain?

1. Pain:

a sensation in which a person experiences discomfort, or suffering due to irritation of or stimulation of sensory nerves especially pain sensors.

Pain is one of the cardinal symptoms of inflammation, it may vary in intensity from mild discomfort to intolerable agony. In most cases, pain stimuli are harmful to the body and tend to bring about reactions by which the body protects itself.Thus pain is a protective reflex of our body and it is a primary signal of protective mechanism of our body.

Adoptation to pain stimuli does not readily occur.

Types of pain are as follows.

1. p abdominals : pain in the abdomal that usually increases with respiration. Experienced in great variety of conditions including appendicitis,broken ribs,intercostal neuralgia,wounds,herpes zoster,pleurisy,pleurodynia,myalgia,periostitis,acute peritonitis, colic ,hepatic,gastric,renal,gallbladderdisorders,carcinoma in late stages and gummata of this region.
2. p aching : generalized aching that may accompany infectious disease such as influenza, smallpox, rheumatic fever, myalgia and various headaches.
3. p acute : a short sharp cutting pain usually associated with acute inflammation of serous membranes as in pleurisy and pericarditis also posterior spinal root pains.
4. p labor ; pains following labor,caused by contraction of uterine muscles during their involution.
5. p agonizing :intense torturing pain of mind or body may due to coronory thrombosis,angina pectoris.may occur in milder form of ashtma or it may be referred pain from gallbladder,intestinal obstruction,diaphragmatic hernia,pancreatitis or perforated ulcer.
6. p angina pectoris : severe paroxysmal pain due to decreased blood supply to the myocardium, radiating through the shoulder down arm or rarely from the heart to the abdomen the feeling is crushed or compresssed chest and lasts from few seconds to minutes.
7. p appendicitis : if the attack is acute there is abdominal pain usually severe,generally throughout the abdoman, followed by localization of pain in lower right,quadrant of abdomen with tenderness over right rectus muscle with rigidity.
8. p labor bearing down :pain and pressure of the second stage of the labour that causes the female to strain or bear down as one does to defecate.
9. p boring: pain deep in tissues that gives the sensation of being produced by a boring instrument
10. p brodie's : pain caused near a joing affected with neuralgia when the skin is folded near it.
11. p burning : pain experienced in heat burns,superficial skin lesions,herpes zoster, and i circumscribed neuralgias.
12. p cardiac ; angina pectoris
13. p causalgic : a spontaneous pain espcially burning in character when associated with anesthesia or hypersthesia in a given nerve
14. p central: pain due to a lesion in the central nervous system
15. p cephalgic ; pain in head
16. p chest : severe pain in chest from exercise may be due to heart disease. If due to pleurisy it comes with a deep breath. If pain accompanies stiff shoulder or neck,it may be due to arthritis or fibrositis.If it comes when patient is bending over after a meal it may be due to diaphragmatic or hiatal hernia.
17. p chronic : pain that is constantly present.
18. p cramplike : muscular spasm such as epigastric pain. menstrual pain is often cramp like
19. p dental : pain in the oral area in general may be of two origins; soft tissuepain may be acute or chronic and a burning pain is due to surface lesions and usually can be discretely localized; pulpal pain or tooth pain will vary whether acute or chronic but often is difficult to localize.
20. p labor dilating : rhythmic pains occuring during the first stage of labor acompanying dilatation of the cervix.
21. p dull : continuous mild throbbing
22. p ear : may indicate inflammation of the external auditory canal, except in young children. also may indicate a furuncle in the meatus or midle ear disease.
23. p eccentric : pain occuring in peripheral structures due to a lesion involvin posterior roots of spinal nerves.
24. p epigastric : severe pain orruring in paroxysms o gastric disorders
25. p labor expulsive : pains of the second and third stages of labor.
26. p false :pain mistaken for a true labor pain in female experiencing her first labor.
27. p gallbladder : pain in uper right abdominal quadrant dull pain just below the last rib in infection or sharp pain in same area radiating to the back and up under the right shoulder,esp. if calculi are present.
28. p gas : pain in the intestines due to accumulation of gas
29. p gastralgic : severe pain occurring in paroxysma in gastric disorders
30. p girdle : pain resembling sensation of a constriction cord around the waist occuring in spinal cord disease
31. p growing : pain felt in the joint of limb of growing children may be rheumatic. an imprecise term indicating ill defined pain in the muscular system of young persons.there is no evidance that the pain related to rapid growth
32. p head : an pain locted in the head esp one experienced in region of cranial vault.headache may be symptom of acute systemic infections,intracranial tumors-infections,vascular lesions,hypertension,acute and chronic infection of nose,sinuses,pharynx,eyeand ear,toxic stage such as alchoholisam and ureamia.headache occus in many febrile diseases in anemia ,hyposia and following head injuries .migraine is also a common cause of headache
33. p hunger : pain due to need for food, coincides with powerful contractions of the stomach
34. p intractable : pain that cannot be easily relieved as that occuring from certain cancers.
35. p lightning : a sudden brief pain that may be repetitive ,it is usually in the legs but may be at any location,these pains are associated with tabes dorsalis.
36. p lingual : pain in tounge that may be due to local lesions,glossitis,fissures or pernicious anemia
37. p mental :pain of psychic origin such as mental deistress of grief. If persistant it may cause true physical pain
38. p migraine : headache accompanied by nausea and vomitting,it may arise from number of causes especially neurological origin.
39. p neuralgic : frequently paroxysmal, occurring along the branches of a nerve,temporarily relieved by heat or pressure,may be rheumatic in origin.
40. p objective : pain induced by some external or internal irritant,by inflammation or by injury to nerves,organs or other tissues that interfere with the function, nutrition, or circulatin of the affected part, usually traceable to a definite pathological process
41. p parasthesic :stringing or tingling sensation manifested in central and peripheral nerve lesions
42. p postprandial : abdomanial pain especial after eating
43. p rectal : pain in rectal area usually agravated by defecation, may be due to ischiorectal abscess, anal abscess,inflamed or stranglated hemorrhoids,,carcinoma, periproctitis,prostatic abscess,,seminal vesiculitis, fecal impaction, acute salpingitis,tabes dorsalis,irritation from diarrhea, foreign bodies, fissures, rectal polyps,or adenoma.Pain during defection may result from anal fissure,ulcer,hemorrhoids, anal abscess,stenosis, stricture,dysentery,impaction,or any inflammation.
44. p rest : pain due to ischemia that comes on when sitting or lying
45. p shifting : pain that seems to arise from diffferent sites from time to time,present in rehumatism,hysteria, and locomotor ataxia.
46. p thoracic : a sharp pain over the sternam primarily in the chest or thoracic region often running down the arm to the elbow,may be indicative of angina pectoris,although it must not be confused with pain from gastric pressure in the region of the heart caused by an accumulation of gas.If it is increased with respiration,it is experienced in broken ribs, intercostal neuralgia,wounds,herpes zoster,pleurisy,pleurodynia,myalgia,periostitis, acute peritonitis,colic,hepatic,gastric or renal ulcer.