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Chronic Pain: The Effects Of Pain On The Body

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Pain is often times thought of as a symptom of a disease, such as a tumor or an infection - but sometimes pain is the disease (Moseley, 2011). There are two major types of pain, one being acute pain and the other is known as chronic pain. Both types of pain cause a prodigious cost to the individual experiencing it. For example, pain causes a cost in terms of money such as paying for rehabilitation or losing money due to lost worker productivity, as well the fact that it can play an emotional toll on the individual (AAPM, n.d.). Although they share this characteristic, each type of pain has a different internal cause and effect on the body.
Acute pain is a standard sensation that is provoked in the nervous system which alerts the individual to a potential injury (AAPM, n.d.). This type of pain notifies the individual that they need to take action to care …show more content…

Once the care occurs, acute pain typically subsides. Chronic pain, on the other hand, continues to exist over long periods of time. The standard sensation that occurs in acute pain continues to in the nervous system for an extended duration of time.
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