Chronic And Acute Pain

This essay will discuss a case study identified in practice. Pain is an unpleasant sensation often caused by intense towards stimuli associated with actual or potential tissue damage. Pain may be acute or chronic. Acute pain lasts a relatively in a short period of time whereby chronic pain may range from mild to severe and is present to certain degree for long periods of time (Dubin, 2010). Pain is unfailingly subjective, however patients with the absence of the ability to communicate may still acknowledge pain. Pain possess sensory, emotional, behavioral, spiritual and cognitive element that involves with developmental, sociocultural, environmental and contextual factors (Baliki, 2008). Complex pain is a painful condition where a person experiences acute or chronic pain involving more than one system of the body which involves interplay of multiple mechanisms (Wilson, 2002).
However multiple pain identified should not be overlooked as an additional source of pain. This case study reviews on complex pain generation between chronic and acute pain which is crucial in order to understand the complexity and limitations of current therapeutic approaches (Allen, 1999). Furthermore, it may also serve as an inspiration that can evaluate the relative contribution and interplay of different pain mechanisms in the individual patients, before they are subjected to more or less empirical treatment (Galer,