Review on pain and pain management

Abstract

Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage. When pain lasts only through the expected recovery period, it is described as acute pain. Chronic pain is the pain that lasts longer than 6 months and is const. Chronic pain and its psychological effects have the potential to reduce quality of life, not only for the person with pain but for the family as well. In some cases, the psychological effects of pain can outlive the actual chronic pain itself and become the major health disorder. Classification of pain is based on etiology of Pain  such as  Nociceptive pain, Somatic pain Visceral pain, Neuropathic pain, Peripheral neuropathic pain, Central neuropathic pain .Pain can be effectively  be treated with drugs of various classes such as narcotics, non-opioids even with emerging potent therapeutic practices such as Ayurveda and Homeopathy. Thus, pain and psychological illness should be viewed as having reciprocal psychological and behavioral effects involving both processes of illness expression and adaption, as well as pain having specific effects on emotional state and behavioral function.