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Referred pain is when you have an injury in one area of your body but feel pain somewhere else. This happens because all the nerves in your body are part of a huge, connected network. Referred pain can occur anywhere, but it’s most common in your neck, shoulders, back, teeth and jaws.
Referred pain is pain perceived at a location other than the site of the painful stimulus/ origin. It is the result of a network of interconnecting sensory nerves, that supplies many different tissues.
Referred pain can be felt in your jaw, teeth, and shoulders. The pain occurs when your body starts to react to a blockage in your coronary arteries that can trigger a heart attack.
Referred pain, also called reflective pain, [1] is pain perceived at a location other than the site of the painful stimulus. An example is the case of angina pectoris brought on by a myocardial infarction (heart attack), where pain is often felt in the left side of neck, left shoulder, and back rather than in the thorax (chest), the site of the ...
All Muscles. Abdominal Obliques. Abductor Digiti Minimi (Foot) Abductor Digiti Minimi (Hand) Abductor Hallucis. Adductor Longus and Brevis. Adductor Magnus. Adductor Pollicis. Anconeus.
A Referred Pain Map or Referred Pain Chart helps healthcare professionals and patients understand which internal organs and systems can cause pain sensations in a particular body area.
The red shaded area is the referred pain caused by the Trigger Point and the darker red means more people experienced pain in that area. This example diagram is for the Abductor Digiti Minimi for the foot: Primary and Secondary Symptoms.
With referred pain, patients may not be aware of the origin of the pain. A few examples of visceral (organ-based) referred pain include: Heart: Teeth, jaw, down the left arm, could be referred from the heart muscle/heart attack. Pancreas: Between the shoulder blades. Gallbladder: Pain under the right scapula.
What Is Referred Pain? Pain felt in one area of the body does not always represent where the problem is because the pain may be referred there from another area. For example, pain produced by a heart attack may feel as if it is coming from the arm because sensory information from the heart and the arm converge on the same nerve pathways in the ...
Referred shoulder pain happens when the pain isn't caused by problems with your shoulder joint or with the muscles, ligaments, or tendons around it. Learn more about it.