According to the International Pain Society, pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or similar to, actual or potential tissue damage. The World Congress on Pain recognizes pain as the fifth vital sign of human beings after respiration, pulse, body temperature and blood pressure. Typically, pain can be divided into acute pain and chronic pain. Acute pain is a common consequence of injury or illness and generally decreases soon after onset and subsides after complete healing. If pain persists for more than 3 months, it is considered chronic pain or intractable pain.
Chronic pain is a disease (photoAC)
Chronic pain is a disease that has attracted great attention around the world. The “China Pain Medicine Development Report (2020)” shows that there are more than 300 million patients with chronic pain in mainland China, and the number is increasing at a rate of 10 million to 20 million every year, constituting a huge disease burden. Pain has become the third major health problem after cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and tumors. If long-term pain is not relieved, complex local pain syndrome or central pain can form, which can evolve into refractory pain, which not only seriously affects the patient’s physical, psychological and social functions, but also affects the family and even society.
In clinical work, we found that many patients with chronic pain are even unable to work and live when they come to see a doctor. In addition to full-time medical treatment, they also need long-term care from their family members. Therefore, pain is not “hypocritical”, but a disease that needs treatment. You should see a doctor if you have the following characteristics: unignorable pain that lasts for more than a month; the original pain suddenly worsens or changes in nature; organic disease has been ruled out, but you still have pain.
2023-10-29 10:36:24
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