Characteristics of Back Pain

Pain is something that unfortunately some people have to live with every day, for others it is a temporary experience that will pass after a long or short period, but it is a sensation that is never welcomed

Pain is an emotional experience (subjective) and sensory (objective), generally unpleasant, experienced by all those living creatures that have a nervous system. It is an experience associated with tissue injury or and is often expressed as if it existed as an actual physical entity.

Pain offers up psychological phenomena (subjective) as physical or biological (objective) sensations the pain varies depending on the type of pain and the individual that it inhabits. There are many studies that attempt to determine the inter-connectedness of the sensations and explain the pain experience.

Characteristics of pain

According to the characteristics of pain we can know its origin or and therefore its diagnosis, its severity or prognosis and treatment.

These features are:

* Location: headache, chest pain, abdominal pain and so on
* Type: sharp, oppressive, painful, colic, and so on.
* Duration: The time since its emergence, and its re-occurrence.
* Frequency: How long the lapses of little on no pain are
* Frequency: The number of times that has happened the pain of similar characteristics.

* Intensity: Usually the first pain is usually intense or strong, but when the pain has repeated several times over time, it can be quantified as less or more painful

* Irradiation: It is the journey that travels the pain from their original location to another location.

* Symptoms companions: accompanying problems such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, fever, and tremor.

* Signs companions: things that arrive with the pain such as Sweating, paleness, shivering, neurological disorders.

* Aggravating factors: These are the factors that increase the pain for example after intake of food, certain movements and other factors that bring on pain to the patient.

* Mitigating factors: These are the factors that reduce pain, such as relaxation, body positions.

* Medications: drugs that calm what is causing pain or reduce the sensation of pain its self.