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Undertreatment of pain is the absence of pain management therapy for a person in pain when treatment is indicated. [ citation needed ] Consensus in evidence-based medicine and the recommendations of medical specialty organizations establish the guidelines which determine the treatment for pain which health care providers ought to offer. [ 1 ]
Pain asymbolia, also called pain dissociation, is a condition in which pain is experienced without unpleasantness. This usually results from injury to the brain, lobotomy, cingulotomy or morphine analgesia. Preexisting lesions of the insula may abolish the aversive quality of painful stimuli while preserving the location and intensity aspects.
Insensitivity to pain means that the painful stimulus is not even perceived: a patient cannot describe the intensity or type of pain. Indifference to pain means that the patient can perceive the stimulus, but lacks an appropriate response: they do not flinch or withdraw when exposed to pain.
The fear-avoidance model (or FA model) is a psychiatric model that describes how individuals develop and maintain chronic musculoskeletal pain as a result of attentional processes and avoidant behavior based on pain-related fear.
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]
Chronic pain is a public health problem that is difficult and costly to treat. [14] This pain can be induced from nerve damage, injury, and even repeated strain. There are very few findings on prevention of chronic pain. Treatment in acute pain can prevent chronic pain from developing.
The IASP broadens this definition to include psychogenic pain with the following points: Pain is always a personal experience that is influenced to varying degrees by biological, psychological, and social factors. Through their life experience, individuals learn the concept of pain. A person's report of an experience of pain should be respected ...
Pain disorder is chronic pain experienced by a patient in one or more areas, and is thought to be caused by psychological stress. The pain is often so severe that it disables the patient from proper functioning. Duration may be as short as a few days or as long as many years.