Chronic Pain Conditions

While the exact source of chronic pain is unknown – and medicine and science will admit that it may not exist – we have a good idea of its list of conditions. Chronic pain may include these:

• Back Pain may be the leading suspect of chronic pain. It can be sensed anywhere along the spine from the neck area, the mid-back, continuing to the lower back area. Different kinds of back pain or neck pain, the pain felt behind the thorax or chest wall, lower back pain, and the bottom tip of your spine.
• Nerve Pain, or a type of pain also called neuralgia, is triggered by issues with one or multiple nerves. Nerve pain is different from tissue-related pain because it requires various kinds of medicine for treatment.
• Headaches or migraines are caused by illness or stress.
• Phantom Pain. Patients missing a limb often complain of dull sensations of pain in either the missing limb or the base of the absent limb, even with the body part being clearly missing. This is called the sensation of phantom pain.
• Scar Pain is another well-known source of chronic pain. It often is the result of a surgical procedure or a surface trauma wound that did not heal cleanly.
• Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS). This is mostly related to either a trauma such as surgery or injury. CPRS can happen after musculoskeletal trauma resulting in serious and debilitating pain. It is normally split into two categories: CRPS type 1 describing a condition absent of nerve damage; or CRPS type 2, a condition where there is confirmed nerve damage.
• Shingles Postherpetic Neuralgia. After an early infection, the chickenpox virus lies inactive in your immune system. Shingles are the recurrence of the virus. The virus harms nerves, resulting in a painful rash in the distressed area. This kind of pain is experienced around and on the area that was once affected by shingles.
• Arthritis is a common disorder causing inflammation and pain of the joints. There are two leading types of arthritis: Rheumatoid and Osteoarthritis.
• Other chronic pain complaints can happen because of injury, trauma, diseases like cancer, or post-operative issues. Some chronic pain conditions have no clear diagnosis, such as Fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia is a puzzling illness whose symptoms include pervasive musculoskeletal pain, causing discomfort in fibrous body tissues – except there is no evidence of tissue harm, but you can still experience constant fatigue and pain.