Optimal management of low back pain as mixed pain
29 May 2020
Current concept of mixed pain
Pain can be nociceptive, nociplastic, or neuropathic. Nociceptive pain is caused by actual or threatened damage to non-neural tissue1 and is the most common type of pain.1 Nociplastic pain, meanwhile, is due to altered nociception without clear evidence of actual or threatened tissue damage that activates peripheral nociceptors, or a disease or a lesion from the somatosensory system. Neuropathic pain directly results from a lesion or a disease that affects the somatosensory system.1,2 A substantial overlap of symptoms in the same body area is classified as “mixed pain.”2
Pain can be nociceptive, nociplastic, or neuropathic. Nociceptive pain is caused by actual or threatened damage to non-neural tissue1 and is the most common type of pain.1 Nociplastic pain, meanwhile, is due to altered nociception without clear evidence of actual or threatened tissue damage that activates peripheral nociceptors, or a disease or a lesion from the somatosensory system. Neuropathic pain directly results from a lesion or a disease that affects the somatosensory system.1,2 A substantial overlap of symptoms in the same body area is classified as “mixed pain.”2
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Optimal management of low back pain as mixed pain
Optimal management of low back pain as mixed pain