Chronic pain

But even in the peace of the night my back pain was sharp. I cried. The pain was horrible. The pain wouldn’t cease, and I didn’t know what to do, so I went to get my mom. I aroused her from her slumber and told her the problem. My dad was half asleep, and he replied to my issue, saying, “Just move the pillow.” What was that…

experienced by someone who has had a limb amputated that the limb is still there. People who have had their limb or some other part of their body part amputated, still experience this. They still feel pain and experience the sensation that it is still attached to the body. The explanation for the phantom limb pain range from injured nerve endings where the limb was lost to changes in the brain areas connected with the missing limb. Phantom limbs also allow us to explore early sensory…

is the medical term for muscle pain. It is often a symptom of another disease present in the body. It isn't a disease itself. So patients who report having this condition to their doctor have to undergo further testing to determine what the other underlying factors are. The severity and location of the pain both help in the diagnosis too. Once the doctor has all the information that he or she needs, they can make a determination of the specific type of muscle pain that someone has, so they know…

Fibromyalgia syndrome (FM) is a condition typically characterized with wide spread pain (Arranz et al., 2010). Along with the pain several other symptoms are also very common such as fatigue, sleep disorders, depression, anxiety, cognitive difficulties, headache, low back pain, and illnesses like irritable bowel syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus and osteoarthritis. It has been estimated that between 2% and 8% of the world population has FM…

How would you validate the diagnosis of fibromyalgia? In diagnosing fibromyalgia, the patient should report a widespread (pain on both sides of the body) chronic pain for 3 or more months. During assessment, the patient should report moderate pain on palpation in no less than 11 of the 18 tender points, including the cervical, thoracic, or lumbar spine. These tender points include the sub-occipital muscle; the anterior lower cervical inter-transverse spaces at C5–7; the second rib…

the Study of Pain (IASP), pain is defined as “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described as such (SOURCE).” Since then, the psychology and subjectivity of pain made it even more complex to define pain. There are so many components to pain such as sensory, physical, psychosocial, emotional, and spiritual and how pain is perceived varies from person to person. There are also so many factors that contribute to the way pain is…

percent of the American population is affected, which is about four times the number afflicted with celiac disease. Fibromyalgia symptoms include: • Widespread pain • Debilitating fatigue • Sleep disorders • Depression • Anxiety • Brain fog • Headaches • Joint pain • Fibromyalgia impacts sufferers enormously. They live with constant pain, exhaustion, depression, and their quality of life is thereby severely compromised. It is a miserable condition. Traditional medicine, which took some time…

Rheumatica and Chronic Urinary Incontinence Chronic illness is defined as “the irreversible presence, accumulation, or latency of diseased states that involve the total human environment for supportive care and self-care, maintenance of function, and prevention of further disability” (Curtin & Lubkin, 1995, p. 6). Though the specifics of this definition can be contentious, for the purposes of this paper, any disease which can be considered in these terms will be regarded as a chronic illness. As…

Fibromyalgia has often been referred to as the invisible disease. Millions of women and men every year are diagnosed with “chronic widespread pain” but they are sometimes dismissed because there is no outward evidence that this condition even exists. This paper will discuss the definition of fibromyalgia and who is at risk of developing this condition. This paper will discuss the different symptoms and difficult diagnosis of Fibromyalgia. Even though there is no cure for this condition there are…

Fibromyalgia and General Health Care Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain which occurs in muscles and soft tissues of the waist on both sides of the body. It is found that there is no medical condition behind this such as inflammation or injury. Unfortunately in this disease, no cure has been found, although intensive research is going on. Though the person suffers from intense pain, with treatment, they can get back to their old lives and work again. But if the pain is not treated, then the person…