In medicine, a distinction is generally between acute and chronic pain. Acute pain occurs when tissue is damaged. Hold only a certain Time and signal and protective pain - a warning sign of physical disturbance, which is reported to the brain.
Chronic pain, however, have been replaced by the original function and exist independently. Sometimes, chronic pain no longer relate to the underlying disease.
The most common forms of chronic pain are back pain, headache, rheumatic pain, neural, pain, cancer pain and degenerative. Causes may occur, for example, nerve injury, muscle tension, viruses, stress or psychological factors in question.
Experts estimate that at least eight million people suffer from severe chronic pain in Germany. Medical specialists such as pain therapists, with their
Expertise to the various pain disorders help those people specifically.
Clinical disease
- Disc herniation in the lumbar spine with and without back and / or leg pain
- Neck Headache with or without atypical facial pain
- Back pain as a result of osteoarthritis of the small joints in the vertebrae throughout the spine
- Back and leg pain as a result of a narrowed spinal canal (spinal stenosis)
- Acute or chronic back pain as a result of the fractured vertebrae, for example, in osteoporosis or tumor involvement
- Chronic muscle pain
- Fibromyalgia
- All joints in the shoulder, knee, hip, ankle, elbow and wrist
- Tumor and metastatic infectionin the spine and in bones in the shoulder, knee, hip, ankle, elbow and wrist
- Tumor and metastatic infection in the spine and in bones
