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Chronic pain conditions are classified as invisible illnesses.  Invisible illnesses pose an additional hardship on the patient suffering from them by making it very difficult for those who associate with persons with such pain syndromes to empathize because they cannot SEE the illness!  However, to those with pain syndromes, empathy is so important because pain immobilizes the body and the brain and loving support is essential to achieving wellness. 

Unfortunately, in my journey with chronic illness and chronic pain, I did not have this support because I did not have the names of my conditions from which I ws suffering and everyone thought I was either a hypochondriac or a secret drug addict.  It was there in the depths of depression at the loss of my health, life and livelihood that I realized that fairy godmother wasn't going to show up and that if anything was going to improve in my life, I was going to have to be the most powerful force for that change.  This realization came to me from reading one of the most important books ever written for those with chronic illness: "The Anatomy of an Illness: As Perceived by the Patient" by Norman Cousins.

In the face of jaded, perplexed, condescending doctors, skeptical and cruel relatives and evaporated friends, I began to reach for answers as I had learned to do the first time I lost my health as a young person.  It is my personal experience that pain debilitates every body function as does those things that we sometimes need to do to mitigate that pain.  However, I can tell you that after being on a handful of meds for years on end just to function, that I no longer need to take any pharmaceuticals to manage my conditions and their complications: this is unprecedented.  To read the details of my story click here.

Therefore, as you travel through this site, keep in mind something that may seem like a knife going in to your heart after years of being treated like a second-class citizen, but you absolutely must allow hope to be restored before approaching your wellness or you will be a self-saboteur.  I am living proof that there is always a way to improve quality of life no matter how many layers of impossible are on top of each other.  The two phrases I have heard from doctors more than anything else are :"We've never seen that before." And "That's impossible!"  Dear Hurting Heart: THERE IS HOPE!

After years of doing everything right, my body was still not responding.  The missing link for me was energy medicine.  Many people do not realize that the body is dependent upon electrical current to stay alive.  When there is a loss of conductivity in the body cell death ensues and all body functions including neurological and cardiac, are impaired as the cells lose the ability to perform the necessary tasks to stay alive.  Chemical and organic toxins impede the flow of current in the body.  The human nervous system is an electrical system.  The brain and the heart output incredible amounts of electromagnetic energy to communicate with the rest of the body. 

Energy medicine technologies works on removing blockages in the body's electrical circuitry and restoring proper flow of bio-electric current into the cells of the body which allows the body to function properly and thus, heal itself as it was designed to do.  "The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life" is a book we recommend by Robert O. Becker and Gary Selden in which Becker, an orthopedic surgeon (at the time working for the Veterans Administration) describes his research into "our bio-electric selves". Becker later observed several interesting properties of bones and bone growth, proposing that bones are semiconductors and piezoelectric in nature.  These factors tie into the healing process by electrically stimulating bone marrow cells to differentiate into a form of adult stem cells which regrew the bone from within by regeneration. By applying external electrical stimulation in the proper form, he was able to induce bone healing in patients whose bones had failed to heal together. 

Later in the book he explores his concerns with deleterious effects of toxic electromagnetic fields (such as those produced by cellphones, home appliances, power lines, etc.) on living organisms.  Understanding the dynamics of the body electric will also help you understand how our advanced energy technologies can work together to restore cellular electrical potential, change your biological terrain and help promote healing and general health.

A healthy cell produces anywhere from 50-75 millivolts.  A cancer cell produces about 10-15 millivolts.  We can see from Dr. Becker's work and this fact about cancer cells the electrical potential of a cell determines the health of the cell and this is exactly what I discovered in my own life.  I was taking all the right remedies, I was eating the proper diet, doing all the right things and yet, my body was not responding.  My body could NOT respond because of the hell my body had gone through that had depleted the electrical potential of my cells.  Once I used energy technologies, my cell conductivity and electrical potential was restored and my body began to be able to utilize the remedies I was taking and restore its own function very rapidly.

The technologies we promote are technologies WE HAVE PERSONALLY TESTED against the other products on the market and we have clinically proven that the products we carry are the best in the business: this is after 30 years of product research!!!  If you have 30 years to test products, you might be tempted to argue with our choices, but you don't, so perhaps you should consider that you have happened upon some VERY VALUABLE INFORMATION!!!  I spent 30 years trying almost everything under the sun SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO!!

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The field of Pain Medicine has evolved over the last 20 years to include an increasing array of sophisticated and technologically complex diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Concurrent to this advancement has been the development of a battery of pharmacological options to treat pain, from extended-release formulations of analgesics to antidepressants and anticonvulsants designed to treat specific types of pain syndromes.

Despite (and perhaps because of) this phenomenal growth, it is not uncommon for patients with persistent pain to find themselves having gone through a number of procedures and taking a growing list of medications without ever experiencing true resolution of the condition or a return to a normal lifestyle and function.

Inherent in this approach is the viewpoint that the clinician's role is to attack symptoms rather than work in concert with the masterpeice that is the human body and all of creation to address and resolve the root causes of their pain condition. Although motivated by the desire to help, this model of pain management neglects any solutions that are "outside of the box". Unfortuately for those suffering from chronic pain; the "box" is miserable and is producing the worst health statistics in the world.

As new treatments are attempted to relieve painful symptoms without improvement, patients may become increasingly passive and can develop a sense of hopelessness and despair.I was forced to look outside the "box" for relief and I am so glad I did! Keep in mind that there are also lifestyle changes that may be necessary such as proper nutrition and physical therapy for results you never dreamed possible!

Fortunately there are now quite effective and proven FDA cleared Electrotherapy pain control devices such as those sold on this web site!!!

Physical Pain is normally a sensory experience that can be described as the unpleasant awareness of a noxious stimulus or bodily harm. Individuals may experience pain by various daily hurts and aches and at times through more serious injuries or illnesses. For scientific and clinical purposes, pain is defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage".

In medicine pain is considered highly subjective. A definition that is widely used in medical practice was first given as early as 1968 by Margo McCaffery: "Pain is whatever the experiencing person says it is, existing whenever they say it does". All types of pain are the most common reason for consulting a physician in the United States, causing about half of all Americans to seek medical care annually. It usually is a major symptom in many medical conditions, and it can significantly interfere with a person's quality of life and general activities.

Diagnosis is usually based on characterizing pain in various ways, according to duration, intensity, type (dull, burning, throbbing or stabbing), and source, or location in the body. Usually pain will stop without treatment or responds to simple measures such as resting or taking an analgesic, and it is then called 'acute' pain. But it may also become intractable and develop into a condition called chronic pain, in which pain is no longer considered a symptom but an illness by itself such as fibromyalgia. The study of pain has in recent years attracted many different fields such as pharmacology, neurobiology, electrotherapy, nursing, dentistry, physiotherapy, and psychology. Pain medicine is a separate subspecialty falling under medical specialties such as anesthesiology, neurology, and psychiatry.

Pain is a part of the body's built in defense system, triggering a reflex reaction to retract from a painful stimulus, and helps adjust behavior to increase avoidance of that particular harmful situation in the future. Given pains significance, physical pain can also be linked to various cultural, religious, philosophical, or social issues.

Mechanisms of Pain

Stimulation of a nociceptor, due to a chemical, thermal, or mechanical event that has the potential to damage body tissue, may cause nociceptive pain.
A nociceptor is a sensory receptor that reacts to potentially damaging stimuli by sending nerve signals to the spinal cord and to the brain. This process, called nociception, usually causes the perception of pain.

Damage to the nervous system itself, due to disease or trauma, may cause neuropathic (or neurogenic) pain. Neuropathic pain may refer to peripheral neuropathic pain, which is caused by damage to nerves, or to central neuropathic pain, which is caused by damage to the brain, brainstem, or spinal cord.

Nociceptive pain and neuropathic pain are the two main kinds of pain when the primary mechanism of production is considered. A third kind may be mentioned: see below psychogenic pain. Nociceptive pain may be classified further in three types that have distinct organic origins and felt qualities.

Superficial somatic pain (or cutaneous pain) is caused by injury to the skin or superficial tissues. Cutaneous nociceptors terminate just below the skin, and due to the high concentration of nerve endings, produce a sharp, well-defined, localized pain of short duration. Examples of injuries that produce cutaneous pain include minor wounds, and minor (first degree) burns.

Deep somatic pain originates from ligaments, tendons, bones, blood vessels, fasciae, and muscles. It is detected with somatic nociceptors. The scarcity of pain receptors in these areas produces a dull, aching, poorly-localized pain of longer duration than cutaneous pain; examples include sprains, broken bones, and myofascial pain.

Visceral pain originates from body's viscera, or organs. Visceral nociceptors are located within body organs and internal cavities. The even greater scarcity of nociceptors in these areas produces pain that is usually more aching or cramping and of a longer duration than somatic pain. Visceral pain may be well-localized, but often it is extremely difficult to localize, and several injuries to visceral tissue exhibit "referred" pain, where the sensation is localized to an area completely unrelated to the site of injury.

Nociception is the unconscious afferent activity produced in the peripheral and central nervous system by stimuli that have the potential to damage tissue. It should not be confused with pain, which is a conscious experience. It is initiated by nociceptors that can detect mechanical, thermal or chemical changes above a certain threshold. All nociceptors are free nerve endings of fast-conducting myelinated A delta fibers or slow-conducting unmyelinated C fibers, respectively responsible for fast, localized, sharp pain and slow, poorly-localized, dull pain. Once stimulated, they transmit signals that travel along the spinal cord and within the brain. Nociception, even in the absence of pain, may trigger withdrawal reflexes and a variety of autonomic responses such as pallor, diaphoresis, bradycardia, hypotension, lightheadedness, nausea and fainting.

Brain areas that are particularly studied in relation with pain include the somatosensory cortex which mostly accounts for the sensory discriminative dimension of pain, and the limbic system, of which the thalamus and the anterior cingulate cortex are said to be especially involved in the affective dimension.

The gate control theory of pain describes how the perception of pain is not a direct result of activation of nociceptors, but instead is modulated by interaction between different neurons, both pain-transmitting and non-pain-transmitting. In other words, the theory asserts that activation, at the spine level or even by higher cognitive brain processes, of nerves or neurons that do not transmit pain signals can interfere with signals from pain fibers and inhibit or modulate an individual's experience of pain. These pain neurons through Electrotherapy and the gate control process can be interrupted and cause the pain to be greatly reduced and even eliminated in many cases.

Electrotherapy

Electrotherapy is the use of electrical energy as a medical treatment. In medicine, the term electrotherapy can apply to a variety of treatments, including the use of electrical devices such as deep brain stimulators for neurological disease. The term has also been applied specifically to the use of electrical current to speed wound healing. Additionally, the term "electrotherapy" or "electromagnetic therapy" has also been applied to a range of alternative medical devices and treatments such as the Wellnes Pro and Photon Harmonizer. The Welless Pro is FDA cleared and has been proven to be quite effective.

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Two books were written about Lahovsky's work:

  "Waves That Heal", and "The Secret of Life". 

Lakhovsky also wrote an article in February 1925, in "Radio News" magazine, called "Curing Cancer with Ultra-High Frequencies", which described his new treatment instrument that used two electron tubes to produce high frequency radio signals in the two meter band. He was ahead of Royal Rife, the American Scientist who also produced a treatment instrument in the 1930's that used radio frequencies to ionize inert gas tubes. Many others were experimenting with the new radio technology of that period.

Lakhovsky introduced his treatment machine, the "MWO" (Multi-Wave Oscillator), which was a "Spark Gap Transmitter" that produced very strong frequency signals with some harmonics in the ultra high frequency spectrum.

PHOTON HARMONIZER HARMONICS
The PHOTON HARMONIZER is a revolutionary new electronic machine, distinct in that it is based on the concept that the order and harmony of the bio-physics underlying the body's biochemistry plays a significant role in regulating all of life's health processes.  Electricity is found naturally in all of us. Certain electrical impulses in our bodies help facilitate bodily functions, including actions needed for health maintenance and healing. By mimicking the harmonic electrical impulses that occur in a perfect state of health, we can help trigger these impulses with the harmonic frequencies, wave energy, broadcast intensity, and location of the energetic frequencies applied to the individual.

Equally important, is the fact that we have "electric-powered" brains: all our thoughts and perceptions consist of complex networks of electrical signals and electromagnetic fields that pulse and sweep throughout the brain. So it makes sense that harmonic electrical revitalization of the brain can harmonically influence your mental state and positively affect mental effectiveness.

Harmonics are sound signals. The new harmonics produced by the PHOTON HARMONIZER are more extensive and far beyond the frequencies and harmonics utilized in the past. Sound principles taken to a new scientific level and beyond.

THE EFFECTS OF SOUND

We experience the energizing effect of sound and music every time we hear music with a heavy beat. Just think of the last time you heard a favorite dance hit and couldn't help but to start dancing along.

The Bulgarian Psychiatrist, Gorgi Lazanoff was able to show an increased capacity for learning, super learning, if you will, by playing Baroque music (1700's Bach, Vivaldi, Telemon, Handle) and having his students breathe in rhythm with the beat. It all goes to show that sound and music can have a profound effect on our health, and well being, not only physically, but also mentally and emotionally as well.

Science has discovered that the power of sound and music changes with emotional states or illness. Our health or mood can be strongly affected by music, toning, chanting, and singing. Just think back to the last time a sick or distraught friend called and remember how their voice was different than normal. Sound research supports this.

PATTERNS OF FREQUENCY

In the growing field of "energy medicine" it is well known that our universe is defined by patterns of frequency. Everything that exists in the physical world has its own unique signature electro-magnetic frequency that identifies the unique energetic vibratory characteristics of the components of the whole and the thing itself.  It has recently been discovered that mental, emotional and spiritual worlds follow this same vibratory laws that the physical world does. This is obvious if we consider that electrons are always moving and vibrating.

All healing interventions must influence the body by somehow altering its frequency resonance. Healing has often been affected by such modalities as sound, light, music therapy and various other energy medicine techniques that alter the frequency patterns of an individual.

All matter, including herbs, pharmaceuticals, and even food with its accompanying vitamins, minerals and other nutrients could be examined from a frequency perspective which may more fully explain their biological effects. Bio-Resonance Therapy is researching these principles of energy medicine.

Jocelyn Godwin, ed. Cosmic Music, Inner Traditions, Rochester, Vermont 1989, stated:
"Research has shown that when we are deprived of certain light frequencies we can become sick. One of the most fascinating scientific facts to emerge recently is that sound behaves in a similar fashion to light. In other words, sound and light act like vitamins and minerals in our body. Most people are deficient in certain tones and this is traced when the human voice is recorded and monitored. We need a certain balance of sound frequencies, which may vary from one individual to another, in order to maintain our bodies in a healthy state. Recent experiments indicate that one of the most powerful ways to heal the individual is to play back the missing frequencies at a low octave which corresponds to brain wave frequencies. What happens here is quite remarkable and really beautiful. The body is simply helped to heal itself by activating the control center in the brain that looks after this healing."

FREQUENCIES AND PULSE REPETITION RATES
Pulses are measured in cycles (or frequencies) moving through a medium - per second. The interplay of harmonics identify a musical instrument as a specific aural experience. While some people would prefer the sound of a specific note on a piano, others would rather hear the same note played on a violin. Although the note is the same in each case, the harmonics vary. The interplay of these harmonics in electro-medicine are essential to cause a given result.

Webster defines the Photon as a quantum of electromagnetic energy having both particle and wave behavior. It has no charge or mass but possesses momentum. The energy of light is carried by photons. The PHOTON HARMONIZER is the latest achievement in electro-medicine. It is the result of decades of research and development. The PHOTON HARMONIZERdramatically innovates and advances the concepts of Tesla, Rife, Abrams, and Lakhovsky by perfecting an advanced lymph technology with full-spectrum frequencies and infinite harmonics. This life-nourishing photobiotic energy is effectively delivered by both an ionized Noble Gas energy-field and deeply penetrating ultra-high frequency energy waves.

Photons are the driving source of metabolism, whereas substances and chemicals are only secondary stimulants and partners of elemental information in this dynamic. Therefore, ordinary nutrition through substances falls far short in meeting our energy and health demands. The PHOTON HARMONIZER provides a full-harmonic spectrum of bio-available photon energy to meet the body's essential needs for direct, consistent, holistic photobiotic nutrition.

The movement of the lymphatic system is essential in purifying, detoxifying and regenerating the body, supporting the immune system, and maintaining health. Normally the lymph is pumped by the movement of our body's electromagnetic field through that of the Earth's electromagnetic field with vigorous exercise and physical activity.

However, a clogged, sluggish, or weak lymphatic system prevents the body from circulating vital fluids and eliminating toxic wastes, thus weakening the immune system. It makes us vulnerable to infections and diseases. In order to be healthy, it is essential to keep the energy balanced and fluids moving so that the body's natural intelligence may operate in its full healing capacity. In addition, each cell must be enlivened with its own unique energetic frequencies and harmonic energy-state, and be harmonically connected to the life-force energy throughout the rest of the body.

Revitalizing the movement of the lymphatic system by electrical fields is a well-established and recognized therapy in Europe and Asia as an effective aid in purifying and detoxifying the body. Until now, this therapy has never been combined with full-spectrum frequency and harmonic technology. In addition, its use has been limited to clinical settings with expensive equipment and rigorous treatments at several times the cost. Now the PHOTON HARMONIZER delivers safe, non-invasive, and easy-to-use lymph technology that effectively provides a full-spectrum of bio-available ultra-high harmonic frequencies from sound to light.

The PHOTON HARMONIZER is available for personal and family use. Recent studies using live blood-cell analysis with "Dark Field" Microscopy have shown an 80% improvement in all health parameters. The PHOTON HARMONIZER excels in its comprehensive, full-sensory, and effective delivery of energy and information to cells and systems of the body. 

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The Wellness Pro assists the body to achieve homeostasis, which is its natural state of well being, by correcting electrical abnormalities in areas of disease or injury.

However, in order to adequately explain how the Wellness Pro work, it is appropriate to begin by considering certain fundamental aspects of living tissue.

The body is made up of a vast number of cells. In many ways these cells act like tiny batteries, storing and releasing energy, doing their work of taking in nutrients, releasing waste products, repairing and reproducing themselves, etc. Each cell, like any battery, has a measurable electrical charge, which must be maintained in order to function properly.

Energy flows constantly between all cells throughout the electrical circuitry of the body. When various forms of damage or trauma occurs to living tissue, there is a disruption in the electrical capacity of the involved cells and after an initial surge, there occurs, a measurable decrease in the production and flow of energy through the electrical network of the involved tissues. This condition is generally accompanied by pain in the area and often results in the body's inability to completely repair itself.

Therefore, lengthy rest periods and inactivity are often prescribed in order to attain eventual restoration of normal function. The Wellness Pro treatments have been likened to putting a "jump start" on the dead battery of a car.
(Also known as The Gate Control Theory).

The gate control theory of pain, put forward by Ronald Melzack and Patrick Wall in 1962, and again in 1965, is the idea that the perception of physical pain is not a direct result of activation of pain receptor neurons, but instead is modulated by interaction between different neurons, both pain-transmitting and non-pain-transmitting. The theory asserts that activation of nerves that do not transmit pain signals can interfere with signals from pain fibers and inhibit an individual's perception of pain.

Adaptation and Behavioral Role

Pain is part of the body's defense system, triggering mental and physical behavior to end the painful experience. It promotes learning so that repetition of the painful situation will be less likely.

Despite its unpleasantness, pain is an important part of the existence of humans and other animals; in fact, it is vital to healthy survival (see below Insensitivity to pain). Pain encourages an organism to disengage from the noxious stimulus associated with the pain. Preliminary pain can serve to indicate that an injury is imminent, such as the ache from a soon-to-be-broken bone. Pain may also promote the healing process, since most organisms will protect an injured region in order to avoid further pain.

Interestingly, the brain itself has no nociceptive tissue, and hence cannot sense pain inside itself. Thus, a headache is not due to stimulation of pain fibers in the brain itself. Rather, the membrane surrounding the brain and spinal cord, called the dura mater, is innervated with pain receptors, and stimulation of these dural nociceptors is thought to be involved to some extent in producing headache pain. The vasoconstriction of pain-innervated blood vessels in the head is another common cause. Some evolutionary biologists[who?] have speculated that this lack of nociceptive tissue in the brain might be because any injury of sufficient magnitude to cause pain in the brain has a sufficiently high probability of being fatal that development of nociceptive tissue therein would have little to no survival benefit.

Chronic pain, in which the pain becomes pathological rather than beneficial, may be an exception to the idea that pain is helpful to survival, although some specialists believe that psychogenic chronic pain exists as a protective distraction to keep dangerous repressed emotions such as anger or rage unconscious. It is not clear what the survival benefit of some extreme forms of pain (e.g. toothache) might be, and the intensity of some forms of pain (for example as a result of injury to fingernails or toenails) seem to be out of all proportion to any survival benefits. However, it is likely that the significant pain levels experienced in these situations are related to the high sensitivity of nerves in these parts of the body. For instance, the nerves in the roots of teeth need to be particularly sensitive in order for the subject to be aware of the sensation of eating, since teeth move very little during this process.

Diagnosis and assessment of Pain

To establish an understanding of an individual's pain, health-care practitioners will typically try to establish certain characteristics of the pain such as the site (localization), onset and offset, character, radiation, associated symptoms, time pattern, exacerbating and ameliorating factors, and the severity. According to its duration, pain may be categorized as acute (short term), subacute (medium term), or chronic (long term).

By using the gestalt of these characteristics, the source or cause of the pain can often be established. A complete diagnosis of pain will require also to look at the patient's general condition, symptoms, and history of illness or surgery. The physician may order blood tests, X-rays, scans, EMG, etc. Pain clinics may investigate the person's psychosocial history and situation.

Pain assessment may also draw upon the concepts of pain threshold, the least experience of pain which a subject can recognize, and pain tolerance, the greatest level of pain which a subject is prepared to tolerate.

Among the most frequent technical terms for referring to abnormal perturbations in pain experience, there are allodynia, pain due to a stimulus which does not normally provoke pain, hyperalgesia, an increased response to a stimulus which is normally painful, hypoalgesia and diminished pain in response to a normally painful stimulus.

Determining all the root causes of pain is essential for maximum resolution. Today, we are daily being exposed to a huge toxic burden comprised of hormone mimickers, neurotoxins, cancer-causing chemcials and heavy metals. Is it any surprise then, that these pseudo-hormones and neuro-toxins causes our nervous system to malfunction and, perhaps even cause pain organically or exacerbate existing pain conditions. Like the iceberg, the accumulating toxic burden lurks beneath the surface, subtily changing our biological terrain and undermining all biological function until one day, the burden becomes so great, that our system, like the iceberg that flips upside down when it becomes too bottom heavy, can no longer bear the toxic burden lurking beneath the surface and our health is turned upside down. But, we have very effective approaches to assist you in addressing this toxic burden.

There are things you are going to have to do to change your story.  You are going to have to educate yourself and be open to learning new things.  You are going to need to be willing to invest in your wellness (although I found the least expensive way to do everything out of necessity).  You are going to need to follow through with making lifestyle changes.  The good news is that if you are willing to do these things: you are going to improve your quality of life and possibly resolve many root causes to your pain and illness syndromes.  For more information about fast-tracking your wellness, please be sure to check out www.TuneYourCells.Com

Verbal characterization of Pain

A key characteristic of pain is its quality. Typical descriptions of pain quality include sharp, stabbing, tearing, squeezing, cramping, burning, lancinating (electric-shock like), or heaviness. It may be experienced as throbbing, dull, nauseating, shooting or a combination of these. Indeed, individuals who are clearly in extreme distress such as from a myocardial infarction may not describe the sensation as pain, but instead as an extreme heaviness on the chest. Another individual with pain in the same region and with the same intensity may describe the pain as tearing which would lead the practitioner to consider aortic dissection. Inflammatory pain is commonly associated with some degree of itch sensation, leading to a chronic urge to rub or otherwise stimulate the affected area. The difference between these diagnoses and many others rests on the quality of the pain. The McGill Pain Questionnaire is an instrument often used for verbal assessment of pain.

Intensity of Pain

Pain may range in intensity from slight through severe to agonizing and can appear as constant or intermittent. The threshold of pain varies widely between individuals. Many attempts have been made to create a pain scale that can be used to quantify pain, for instance on a numeric scale that ranges from 0 to 10 points. In this scale, zero would be no pain at all and ten would be the worst pain imaginable. The purpose of these scales is to monitor an individual's pain over time, allowing care-givers to see how a patient responds to therapy for example. Accurate quantification can also allow researchers to compare results between groups of patients.

Localization of Pain

Pains are usually called according to their subjective localization in a specific area or region of the body: headache, toothache, shoulder pain, abdominal pain, back pain, joint pain, myalgia, etc. Localization is not always accurate in defining the problematic area, although it will often help narrow the diagnostic possibilities. Some pain sensations may be diffuse (radiating) or referred. Radiation of pain occurs in neuralgia when stimulus of a nerve at one site is perceived as pain in the sensory distribution of that nerve. Sciatica, for instance, involves pain running down the back of the buttock, leg and bottom of foot that results from compression of a nerve root in the lumbar spine. Referred pain usually happens when sensory fibers from the viscera enter the same segment of the spinal cord as somatic nerves, i.e., those from superficial tissues. The sensory nerve from the viscera stimulates the nearby somatic nerve so that the pain localization in the brain is confused. A well-known example is when the pain of a heart attack is felt in the left arm or jaw more so than in the chest where the actual problem exists. Disruption of the vagal nerve can cause body wide symptoms, immune dysfunction, autonomic regulation problems that are often not linked back to problems with the vagal nerve.

Management of Pain

Medical management of pain has given rise to a distinction between acute pain and chronic pain. Acute pain is 'normal' pain, it is felt when hurting a toe, breaking a bone, having a toothache, or walking after an extensive surgical operation. Chronic pain is a 'pain illness', it is felt day after day, month after month, and seems impossible to heal.

In general, physicians are more comfortable treating acute pain, which usually is caused by soft tissue damage, infection and/or inflammation among other causes. It is usually treated simultaneously with pharmaceuticals, commonly analgesics, or appropriate techniques for removing the cause and for controlling the pain sensation. The failure to treat acute pain properly may lead to chronic pain in some cases.

General physicians have only elementary training in chronic pain management. Often, patients suffering from it are referred to various medical specialists. Though usually caused by an injury, an operation, or an obvious illness, chronic pain may as well have no apparent cause. This disorder can trigger multiple psychological problems that confound both patient and health care providers, leading to various differential diagnoses and to patients' feelings of helplessness and hopelessness. Multidisciplinary pain clinics have been growing in number over the last few decades.

Anesthesia

Anesthesia is the condition of having the feeling of pain and other sensations blocked by drugs that induces a lack of awareness. It may be a total or a minimal lack of awareness throughout the body (i.e., general anesthesia), or a lack of awareness in a part of the body (i.e., regional or local anesthesia).

Analgesia

Analgesia is an alteration of the sense of pain without loss of consciousness. The body possesses an endogenous analgesia system, which can be supplemented with painkillers or analgesic drugs to regulate nociception and pain. Analgesia may occur in the central nervous system or in peripheral nerves and nociceptors. The perception of pain can also be modified by the body according to the gate control theory of pain.

The endogenous central analgesia system is mediated by three major components : the periaqueductal grey matter, the nucleus raphe magnus and the nociception-inhibitory neurons within the dorsal horns of the spinal cord, which act to inhibit nociception-transmitting neurons also located in the spinal dorsal horn. The peripheral regulation consists of several different types of opioid receptors that are activated in response to the binding of the body's endorphins. These receptors, which exist in a variety of areas in the body, inhibit firing of neurons that would otherwise be stimulated to do so by nociceptors.

The gate control theory of pain postulates that nociception is "gated" by non-noxious stimuli such as vibration. Thus, rubbing a bumped knee seems to relieve pain by preventing its transmission to the brain. Pain is also "gated" by signals that descend from the brain to the spinal cord to suppress (and in other cases enhance) incoming nociceptive information. Electrotherapy can be quite effective at reducing and even eliminating pain completely by takin advantage of the gate theory and enhancing the production of ATP (the energy source of the cells).

Complementary and alternative medicine

A survey of American adults found pain was the most common reason that people use complementary and alternative medicine.

Traditional Chinese medicine views the electrical system of the body as a circuit of meridians. They call the body's electrical life force "qi". TCM believes that pain is caused by'blocked' qi, akin to electrical resistance, with treatments such as acupuncture claimed as more effective for nontraumatic pain than traumatic pain. Acupuncture needles are metal and bridge broken circuits. Further, the minute stimulation at the specific circuit junction, aka acupuncture point, evokes a healing response in that particular circuit. Although the mechanism is not fully understood, acupuncture may stimulate the release of large quantities of endogenous opioids.

Some kinds of physical manipulation or exercise are showing interesting results as well.

Special types of Pain

Phantom pain
Phantom pain is the sensation of pain from a limb or organ that has been lost or from which a person no longer receives physical signals. Phantom limb pain is an experience almost universally reported by amputees and quadriplegics. Phantom pain is a neuropathic pain.

Pain asymbolia
Pain science acknowledges, in a puzzling challenge to IASP definition,[3] that pain may be experienced as a sensation devoid of any unpleasantness: this happens in a syndrome called pain asymbolia or pain dissociation, caused by conditions like lobotomy, cingulotomy or morphine analgesia. Typically, such patients report that they have pain but are not bothered by it, they recognize the sensation of pain but are mostly or completely immune to suffering from it.

Insensitivity to pain
The ability to experience pain is essential for protection from injury, and recognition of the presence of injury. Insensitivity to pain may occur in special circumstances, such as for an athlete in the heat of the action, or for an injured soldier happy to leave the battleground. This phenomenon is now explained by the gate control theory. However, insensitivity to pain may also be an acquired impairment following conditions such as spinal cord injury, diabetes mellitus, or more rarely Hansen's Disease (leprosy). A few people can also suffer from congenital insensitivity to pain, or congenital analgesia, a rare genetic defect that puts these individuals at constant risk from the consequences of unrecognized injury or illness. Children with this condition suffer carelessly repeated damages to their tongue, eyes, bones, skin, muscles. They may attain adulthood, but they have a shortened life expectancy.

Psychogenic pain
Psychogenic pain, also called psychalgia or somatoform pain, is physical pain that is caused, increased, or prolonged by mental, emotional, or behavioral factors. Psychogenic pain commonly manifests as headache, back pain, or stomach pain. Sufferers are often stigmatized, because both medical professionals and the general public tend to think that pain from a psychological source is not "real". However, specialists consider that it is no less actual or hurtful than pain from other sources.

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