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Pain Pain • Many ailments of the body cause pain. • The ability to diagnose different diseases depends to a great extent on a clinician’s knowledge of the different qualities of pain. • It occurs whenever tissues are being damaged and causes the individual to react to remove the...

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Pain

, Pain
• Many ailments of the body cause pain.
• The ability to diagnose different diseases
depends to a great extent on a clinician’s
knowledge of the different qualities of pain.
• It occurs whenever tissues are being damaged
and causes the individual to react to remove the
pain stimulus.
• Even simple activities as sitting for a long time on
the ischium can cause tissue destruction because
of lack of blood flow to the skin where it is
compressed by the weight of the body.

,• When the skin becomes painful as a result of
the ischemia, the person normally shifts
weight subconsciously.
• However, a person who has lost the pain
sense, as after spinal cord injury, fails to feel
the pain and, therefore, fails to shift.
• This situation soon results in total breakdown
and desquamation of the skin at the areas of
pressure.

, TYPES OF PAIN AND THEIR
QUALITIES—FAST PAIN AND
SLOW PAIN
• Pain has been classified into two major types:
fast pain and slow pain.
• Fast pain is felt within about 0.1 second after a
pain stimulus is applied
• Slow pain begins only after 1 second or more
and then increases slowly over many seconds
and sometimes even minutes.

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