Type of Pain

  1. Radicular pain
    • Radiates or travels along a dermatome of nerve due to inflammation , compression or irritation of some sort(radiculopathy)
    • Sharp, shooting that may be accompanied by paresthesia, numbness, tingling and muscle weakness or reflex loss
  2. Visceral pain
    • It originates in the organs and is often hard to locate.
    • It may produce referred pain
    • RMT can not treat this pain
  3. Referred pain
    • This is pain which travels from its original source. It may come from cutaneous, deep somatic or visceral tissue.
  4. Cutaneous pain
    • Superficial tissue damage. well localized, sharp and burning
    • RMT can not treat this pain
  5. Deep somatic pain
    • Often arises from muscles, ligaments, tendons, bone or fascia
    • Dull and aching
  6. Functional and psychogenic pain
    • Also called psychalgia or somatoform pain
    • Pain arises from emotions, stress or traumatic experience
    • Poorly localized
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