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Chronic pain, however, have been replaced by the original function and exist independently.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 infection
in the spine and in bones
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