Pain Disorder
Pain disorder is chronic pain experienced by a patient in one or more areas, and is thought to be caused by psychological stress. The pain is often so severe that it disables the patient from proper functioning.
Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: PW149
Diagnosis: Pain Disorder
US Patients:
World Patients:
Sex Ratio: M;F+
Age Onset: Children
Brain Area:
Symptoms: Chronic pain thought to be caused by psychological stress; after accident, during illness, after drug withdrawal – but pain continues
Progression: After the pain should be gone, it increases due to attention or benefits for it.
Causes:
Medications: transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, trigger-point injections, surgical ablations
Therapies: CBT-talk to retrain behaviors. Lohr’s “Calming My Pain!” DVD or Download (offered on this website) may help if used as requested.
Youtube Video: Pain and the Brain
Amazon or Library Book: When Children Feel Pain
Click the book to link or order from Amazon.
Jim Lohr’s own “Calming My Pain” can be downloaded
from the “Blue Box” on this website.
You can download this program from the “Blue Box”
in the right column of the website.
Support Group: painconnection.org; 800-910-0664
(U. S. Pain Foundation)
4 CURRENT ARTICLES
FROM PUBMED
The world-wide medical research
reports chosen for each diagnosis
Clicking each title opens the
PubMed article’s summary-abstract.
- Lidocaine Patches After Cesarean Sections: A Randomized Control Trialby Christopher K Arkfeld on November 4, 2024
CONCLUSIONS: The addition of lidocaine patches did not significantly decrease the maximum or average post-operative pain scores via visual analog scale after cesarean sections. More research is needed into non-opioid pain management strategies in the post-operative period in obstetric care.
- Epidemiology of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Iranian Population From 2019 to 2024: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysisby Asad Imani on November 4, 2024
CONCLUSION: The prevalence of PTSD in young Iranian men is relatively high, and there was no statistically significant decrease in PTSD prevalence between 2019 and 2024.
- A Case Report of Gastric Oral Contrast-enhanced Ultrasonography in the Diagnosis of Eosinophilic Gastroenteritis in Adultsby Lanyan Qiu on November 4, 2024
CONCLUSION: Significant thickening of the digestive tract walls and ascites at ultrasonography (US)-examination, with distinct layers and predominant thickening of the muscularis propria layer at OCEUS, can indicate EGE.
- Non-aneurysmal Gastroepiploic Arterial Hemorrhage With Median Arcuate Ligament Syndromeby Hiroki Nagasawa on November 4, 2024
Spontaneous non-aneurysmal gastroepiploic arterial hemorrhage is a rare occurrence, and its association with celiac axis compression syndrome (CACS), also referred to as median arcuate ligament syndrome (MALS), is even more uncommon. Furthermore, nontraumatic intraperitoneal hemorrhage due to defecation strain is also rare. This study reports an extremely rare case of non-aneurysmal gastroepiploic arterial hemorrhage with CACS/MALS after defecation strain. A 24-year-old man presented with a...