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Chronic pain is considered a syndrome because of the associated symptoms that develop in those experiencing chronic pain. [5] Chronic pain affects approximately 20% of people and accounts for 15-20% of visits to a physician. [2] Pain can be categorized according to its location, cause, or anatomical system in which it affects.
Neurology. Central pain syndrome, also known as central neuropathic pain, [1] is a neurological condition consisting of constant moderate to severe pain due to damage to the central nervous system (CNS) which causes a sensitization of the pain system. [2][3] The extent of pain and the areas affected are related to the cause of the injury. [4]
Amplified musculoskeletal pain is a syndrome which is a set of characteristic symptoms and signs. Essentially, the syndrome is characterized by diffuse, ongoing, daily pain associated with relatively high levels of incapability and greater care-seeking behavior. The discomfort can be in the skin (allodynia), abdomen, throat (dysphagia ...
The Washington Post reported on a study that found “middle-aged women with chest pain and other symptoms of heart disease were twice as likely to be diagnosed with a mental illness compared with ...
In its traditional manifestation, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy is characterized by symmetric, progressive limb weakness and sensory loss, which typically starts in the legs. Patients report having trouble getting out of a chair, walking, climbing stairs, and falling. Problems with gripping objects, tying shoe laces, and ...
How America’s health care system fails women in pain. For 20 years, doctors told Diana Falzone her pain was normal. “Well, that’s just how it is for some women,” she remembers one saying ...
Tension myositis syndrome (TMS), also known as tension myoneural syndrome or mindbody syndrome, is a name given by John E. Sarno to what he claimed was a condition of psychogenic musculoskeletal and nerve symptoms, most notably back pain. [1][2][3] Sarno described TMS in four books, [4][5][6][7] and stated that the condition may be involved in ...
0.5% of people [ 1 ][ 5 ] Interstitial cystitis (IC), a type of bladder pain syndrome (BPS), is chronic pain in the bladder and pelvic floor of unknown cause. [ 1 ] It is the urologic chronic pelvic pain syndrome of women. [ 2 ] Symptoms include feeling the need to urinate right away, needing to urinate often, and pain with sex. [ 1 ]