What is Pain Management?

Pain Definitions

Pain is an unpleasant sensation that most of us would do our best to avoid. It can be best defined as a sensory or emotional response to actual or impending tissue damage.

Acute Pain : Pain that is often severe, of sudden onset and lasts a relatively short time. It may result from an injury or an infection and resolves once healed.

Chronic Pain : Pain that continues for a long period of time, medically defined as greater than 3 months.

Referred Pain : Pain experienced in a different part of the body from its cause.

Emotional Pain : The pain and anguish we feel through our mind and emotions

How common is Pain?

Over 80 per cent of the population in the United Kingdom take painkillers on a regular basis.

It is estimated that 10 per cent or more of the population of United Kingdom suffer from chronic pain.

Headaches are the most common type of pain experienced in the United Kingdom with about 30 per cent of the population suffering them every year.

In 1998. 40% of adults ” more than 16 million people had back pain lasting more than one day.