PAIN SENSIBILITY IN DEEP SOMATIC STRUCTURES

Pain sensibility in deep somatic structures.

Introduction It is well recognized that pain may be provoked by the stimulation of many deep-lying somatic structures, such as muscle, tendon, periosteum, etc. (Lewis, 1942). It was noted by Lewis (1938) that the quality of this pain is independent of the method of stimulation adopted, and that it differs markedly from the quality of the pain which can be aroused from skin. In consequence he su...

Does acute intraoral pain alter cutaneous sensibility?

Cutaneous sensibility was tested in eight patients suffering from acute postoperative intraoral pain. Tactile-, cold-, warm-, and heat-pain thresholds as well as reaction time to cold pulses were unaffected by the presence of pain. However, reaction time to warm pulses was increased in the painful area on the day of pain compared to a non-painful state. The findings are discussed in relation to...

Improvement in cutaneous sensibility associated with relief of pain.

It is often found that when there is a lesion in the peripheral or the central nervous system causing pain or local tenderness, stimuli applied to the skin of the affected part are not clearly perceived. The clarity of touches with von Frey hairs or cottonwool, the discreteness of pinpricks, the definite perception of when a stimulus is applied and when removedthese may all be absent. Evidence ...

Somatic Pain of Visceral Origin

Is pain a somatic symptom?

The grouping of symptoms into "somatic" or "physical" on the one hand and "mental", "somatoform", or "psychological" on the other are vestiges of an era in medicine when it seemed useful to divide all the phenomena of disease into two groups - one related to the soma and other to the psyche. Today, this division is becoming obsolete and is harmful. Obsolete, because we are discovering changes i...