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Explanatory model of chronic pain. Chronic pain is defined as reoccurring or persistent pain lasting more than 3 months. [1] The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) defines pain as "An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage". [2]
ICD-10 is the 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), a medical classification list by the World Health Organization (WHO). It contains codes for diseases, signs and symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances, and external causes of injury or diseases. [1]
Amplified musculoskeletal pain syndrome (AMPS) is an illness characterized by notable pain intensity without an identifiable physical cause. [ 1 ] [ 6 ] Characteristic symptoms include skin sensitivity to light touch, also known as allodynia .
Pain located in the area supplied by the pudendal nerve (from the anus to the clitoris or penis). [17] The pain may be located close to the surface of the skin, or be deeper inside the body. Pain that is exclusively located in adjacent areas is excluded, although sometimes pain from pudendal neuralgia may be referred to those areas. [31]
Adoption of ICD-10-CM was slow in the United States. Since 1979, the US had required ICD-9-CM codes [11] for Medicare and Medicaid claims, and most of the rest of the American medical industry followed suit. On 1 January 1999 the ICD-10 (without clinical extensions) was adopted for reporting mortality, but ICD-9-CM was still used for morbidity ...
The cause is believed to be muscle tension or spasms within the affected musculature. [1] Diagnosis is based on the symptoms and possible sleep studies. [1] Treatment may include pain medication, physical therapy, mouth guards, and occasionally benzodiazepine. [1] It is a relatively common cause of temporomandibular pain. [1]
This type of familial episodic pain syndrome is characterized by infancy-onset intense and debilitating upper-body episodic pain. It's caused by mutations in the TRPA1 gene, in chromosome 8. It was first described in 2010 by Kremeyer et al. in 21 affected members from a large 4-generation Colombian family. Transmission is autosomal dominant. [4 ...
[1] [2] Blood thinners may be used to treat or prevent blood clots. [1] The condition affects about 1% of the population. [4] It is more common in women than men and it occurs most commonly between 20 and 50 years of age. [1] The condition was first described in 1818 and the current term "thoracic outlet syndrome" first used in 1956. [2] [6]