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Analgesia is the reduction in pain brought about by chemical, electrical or psychological means (eg hypnosis).
Contents
Naturally occuring analgesia[]
Psychological analgesia[]
Chemical analgesia[]
Electrical analgesia[]
- Electrotherapy
- Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) (the most commonly used)
- Interferential Current (IFC)
- Galvanic Stimulation (GS)
See also[]
- Antianalgesia
- Analgesic drugs
- Aneasthesia (feeling)
- Opioid-induced hyperalgesia
- Patient-controlled analgesia
- Pain management
- Pain measurement
- Pain perception
References[]
Pain and nociception | |
|---|---|
| Head and neck |
Jaw and mouth (Odynophagia ) • Ear (otalgia, otitis media, otitis externa) • Eye (glaucoma) • Head (headache, migraine, tension headache, cluster headache, cerebral aneurysm, sinusitis, meningitis) • Neck (atypical myocardial infarction) |
| Thorax |
Back (upper back, lower back, spinal disc herniation, degenerative disc disease, coccydynia) • Breast (perimenstrual, breast cancer) • Chest (myocardial infarction, gastroesophageal reflux disease, pancreatitis, hiatus hernia, aortic dissection, asymptomatic pulmonary embolism, Tietze's syndrome) • Shoulder (right side - cholecystitis) |
| Abdominal |
Left and right upper quadrant (peptic ulcer disease, gastroenteritis, hepatitis, pancreatitis, cholecystitis, atypical myocardial infarction, abdominal aortic aneurysm, asymptomatic gastric cancer) • Left and right lower quadrant (appendicitis, ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, ectopic pregnancy, endometriosis, pelvic inflammatory disease, diverticulitis, urolithiasis, pyelonephritis, colorectal cancer) |
| Limbs |
Arm (myocardial infarction, left arm) • Leg (deep vein thrombosis, peripheral artery occlusive disease, claudication, spinal disc herniation, sciatica) |
| Joints (arthralgia) |
Small joints (osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosis, gout, pseudogout • Large joints (osteoarthritis, septic arthritis, hemarthrosis, osteonecrosis) • Back joints (ankylosing spondylitis, inflammatory bowel disease) • Other (psoriatic arthritis, Reiter's syndrome) |
| Musculoskeletal |
Delayed onset muscle soreness, myalgia, physical trauma |
| Other/unspecified |
cold pressor test, congenital insensitivity to pain, dolorimeter, HSAN (Type I, II congenital sensory neuropathy, III familial dysautonomia, IV congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis, V congenital insensitivity to pain with partial anhidrosis), neuralgia, pain asymbolia, pain disorder, paroxysmal extreme pain disorder • Allodynia, breakthrough pain, chronic pain, hyperalgesia, hypoalgesia, hyperpathia, phantom pain, referred pain |
| Related concepts |
Anterolateral system, gate control theory of pain, pain management (anesthesia, cordotomy), pain scale, pain threshold, pain tolerance, posteromarginal nucleus, substance P, suffering, OPQRST |
