CHRONIC PAIN
Disease information
CHRONIC PAIN
A
chronic
pain is considered to which it lasts more than 6 months and that do not respond to the habitual therapies for their control, like the surgeries, the medicines, the rest, the fisioterapia or other means and by the same the doctors consider that no longer it is
a
symptom,
but
a
disease
in himself.
In the United States one calculates that half of the population suffers somewhere of
chronic
pain its body and in
Mexico
thinks that the number can be equal.
The
chronic
pain can last years and causes serious damages in the quality of life of the person and although many
diseases
produce pain by the damage in the organs that affect, the
syndrome
of
chronic
pain lacks identifiable physical cause and this it is declared with so, when the patient is put under examinations of all type and apparently there is no
a
causal one that justifies it.
The pain can have arisen as
a
result of
a
slight traumatismo or from
a
surgical procedure,
but
it continues much later of which the patient "has healed" or
has
been registered by the
doctor
.
Between the more frequent
chronic
pains they are the one of head and the one of back.
Many made studies establish
a
bond with
a
psychological mechanism called somatización, in which the emotional states are pronounced in
organic
sufferings and some have related it to situations of anxiety,
depression
or emotional malaise.
Independently of as it is the
origin
of the
disease
or of if is an
organic
reason that it causes it, the life of that suffers it affects, deteriorates the capacity to study suitably,
to work
, to establish
social
relations and to sleep. The feelings of hopelessness and neglect produce much
stress
and take to the
depression
and to the isolation, which also causes that the familiar relation is affected and the demands of the patient arrive to tire, to anger or to make hopeles the relatives.
The
chronic
pain is
a
preoccupation in the public
health
, of such form which already pain places of and specialistic
doctor
in taking care of this
problem
exist in many clinical, more and more increasing.
The treatment must occur under an
integral
approach that includes medicines, therapies, physical techniques of relaxation, quiropráctica, motivation towards conductuales changes, exercises, massages and in some cases electrical hypnosis or stimulations and when they get to be very severe, until the internamiento of the patients to be able to administer more powerful medicines.
The
chronic
pain can be caused by inflammatory
arthritis
,
bursitis
,
tendinitis
and other sufferings, neuropatía postherpes to
zoster
, paralysis of Bell,
diabetic
neuropatía, postsurgical
syndrome
of carpiano tunnel,
cancer
, effects with injuries in nerves and others,
but
in all the cases he is advisable to look for aid suitable and specialized to control it and to improve the quality of life since
a
continuous and systematic pain can take to the
depression
, to the isolation and often to the suicide.
Reference:
Guide of Clinical May on
chronic
pain.
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