Neural mechanisms of pain.
Pain is one of the most common reasons that patients seek medical care, and affects one-third of the population within a given year. Pain is not always "functional" (physiologic), but often is pathologic, or chronic. This article describes the mechanisms of pain, showing how a protective response can become altered to chronic pain state, such as chronic pelvic pain.
University of Missouri, Kansas City, The Breast Center at Truman Medical Center, 64108, USA.
Gerard
G
Malnar
D000701:Analgesics, Opioid / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002490:Central Nervous System / Q000503:physiopathology; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D009434:Neural Pathways / Q000187:drug effects / Q000503:physiopathology; D009619:Nociceptors / Q000187:drug effects / Q000503:physiopathology*; D010146:Pain / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012307:Risk Factors
D000701:Analgesics, Opioid