Somatic pain occurs when pain receptors in tissues (like the skin, muscles, and joints) are activated. Visceral pain occurs when pain receptors in the pelvis, abdomen, chest, or intestines are ...

Pain comes from the communication between your nerves, spinal cord, and brain. Depending on the underlying cause, your pain may be acute, chronic, neuropathic, or nociceptive, which is divided into ...

This week we are going to discuss a rather diffuse and difficult differential diagnosis for physicians to consider when evaluating patients for pain. The differences between visceral pain (i.e.

ALTHOUGH our Puritan ancestors may have thought that pain was a scourge of God to try the soul of man, few modern philosophers would agree with this concept. The attempt to control chronic pain by ...

The patient was made NPO in the emergency room and was treated with 300 mg of Ibuprofen by mouth for pain. Once the diagnosis of left lower lobe pneumonia was established, the patient was discharged ...

Somatic pain and visceral pain are two distinct pain types that you'll experience differently. Somatic pain arises in the skin, muscles, and soft tissues, while visceral pain comes from the internal ...