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We treat over 90 painful conditions including Muskuloskeletal Pain, Neuropathic Pain and Complex Pain. Information updated: 30th Nov 2006.
Pain is what the patient says it is! Pain is always subjective.
“An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage.”
Abridged from the International Association for the Study of Pain.
Pain can be divided by its time-course. Acute Pain is pain present for less than 3 months; Chronic Pain is pain present for greater than 3 months.
Pain can also be divided into 2 types:
A type of pain caused by damage and/or dysfunction to the nervous system. It affects up to 1% of the UK population.
Neuropathic Pain can be extremely unpleasant and distressing and responds poorly to standard analgesics (pain-killers) such as Paracetamol, NSAIDs or Codeine.
Patients often describe the pain with very descriptive language: burning, stabbing, shooting, numb, sharp, sawing, lancinating.
With Neuropathic Pain there is often disruption to the normal functioning of sensory nerves which may manifest as allodynia, hyperalgesia and dysaesthesia.
Pain and sensory dysfunction can lead to motor dysfunction, including stiffness, reduced movement and disability.
Patients may also experience other manifestations of pain including: sleep difficulties, anxiety, depression, mood disturbances, relationship difficulties and social isolation.
Full IASP (International Association for the Study of Pain) list of pain terminology.
Each Condition is a link to valuable detailed information from other respected web sites.
Sports Injury treatment from the London Pain Clinic uses the latest evidence based treatments. For more information see the Sports Injury Treatment page.
Pain in Cancer can include Nociceptive pain (normal pain), Neuropathic pain or a mixed picture. For more information see the Cancer Pain Treatment page.
Our treatment pages contain information all aspects of treating pain.
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