Every one experienced pain in the life. But no all people understood it.
Definition
Pain is a kind of uncomfortable feeling. Some persons describe it as sore, ache and pain.
Usually the severity from mild to serious one is sore, ache and pain. In the body, pain can be felt in all tissues or organs except nails and hairs.
Causes
The causes of pain include the huge various aspects: injury, inflammation, tumor / cancer, stone, occlusion, compression, fracture, poor circulation or weakness, stress or psychological disorder, etc.
Pain is a most common symptom. As a provider, he / she must have extreme knowledge and experience to diagnose its causes, which is greatly related to treatment effect and prognosis.
Presentation
Pain is various in the different body. It is called “personal difference”. Pain is a subjective symptom. Assessment must combine with objective information like signs from the physical exams and foundings from the tests (US, X-ray, CT, MRI, blood test etc.)
Clearly understanding pain needs to know the kind, duration, location, severity of pain.
A radiation pain is a kind of pain that problem’s location is far away from pain area.
The accompanied symptoms and signs depend on the causes or medical problems: stiffness, movement limitation, numbness / tingling, weakness, fever, stress, insomnia, cold feeling, abdominal bloating, constipation, menstruation clamp…… too too many symptoms may came together.
PAIN IS ONLY A SYMPTOM. PAIN IS NOT ONLY FROM A INJURY. MANY INTERNAL MEDICAL PROBLEMS HAVE THE PAIN!!
Diagnosis
The pain is a clue of the medical problems. The causes of pain must be dug out.
The diagnosis of pain requires the vast knowledge and experience of the providers. Its diagnosis includes: position (which organ) and cause. This need to understand the pain’s mechanism and the relationship of organs.
Pain is not equal to the injury!
Treatment
As a common medical symptom, pain has too many causes.
Pain works like a clue of the medical problem(s). Unless pain is too severe, it can not be stopped before its cause(s) was diagnosed. Otherwise, problem will be masked and misdiagnosed.
The treatment of pain includes 2 aspects:
1. Treat the pain symptom, after the cause(s) of the pain was diagnosed or if the pain itself is too serious that the body can not endure or may lead to other medical harm like shock.
This is temporary relief.
In the Western Medicine, pain medicine is an option. But long-term use may hurt the internal organs, especially kidney. In the Chinese Medicine, acupuncture or / and Chinese herbs will provide good pain control without the obvious side effects.
2. Treat the pain’s cause(s), after the cause(s) of the pain was diagnosed.
This is radical treatment. Only after the medical problem cause(s) of pain is removed, the pain will really go away. This is an advanced option.
In treating the different medical causes of pain, the Western Medicine and the Chinese Medicine have their advantages and disadvantages.
In the following medical problems of pain, the Chinese Medicine has more advantages:
1) Acute and chronic soft tissue injury
2) Fibromyalgia
3) Migraine (headache)
4) Psychological issues like anxiety or depression
5) Stress or insomnia
6) Traumatic arthritis
7) Mal-digestion (abdominal pain)
8) Chronic fatigue (multiple body pain)
A typical successful case in our clinic: male, 65 years old, unknow body pain for 3 years, insomnia and depression, fatigue, worse chronic neck and back pain, recent hip fracture non-union for 1 year (even after surgery with the pins); There is no way to do in the Western Medicine. By the Chinese medicine, treated the internal medical problems and benefited the external trauma and injury, eventually all symptoms were clear up; also fracture healed. THE BODY IS ENTITY!