Medical Convencion Blog

Cancer pain: the pain of a disease based cancer and is associated usually with the sense of loneliness and anxiety of chronic illness. You can have different origins, such as compression of a tissue by the tumor itself, the appearance of neuropathy or be derived from the undesirable effects of proper treatment of underlying disease. It’s a pain that, as intense usually requires an aggressive approach by all appropriate measures, pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic.

Musculo-skeletal pain: in this case, one of the main concerns is the avoidance of the appearance of immobility syndrome: if the patient has muscle or joint pain, tend to move less and receive the consequences of this syndrome, such as impaired functional, the occurrence of pressure ulcers or psychological and social disturbances. The origins are the most common bone or joint disorders (bone deformities, osteomalacia, fractures, arthritis, osteoarthritis, rheumatic diseases, etc.) And disease-splenic alterations such as ramps or muscle contractures.

Neuropathic pain: The pain is intrinsic to the nerve that transmits information. While not as common as musculoskeletal pain, its prevalence is important in this age group. It usually has an added difficulty in their treatment, and its origin is usually producing disease neuropathy (diabetes, herpes zoster, trigeminal neuropathy, phantom limb, etc.).