Mixed pain

Pain including both components; Nociceptive and Neuropathic pain.

Disease related Mix Pain;

  • Low back pain
  • Complex region pain syndrome
  • Phantom limb pain
  • Skeletal muscle pain1

 

2 HCP reading x-ray chart

Low back pain is the most common problem worldwide, with a reported lifetime prevalence of muscle spasm is 40–85%2

Muscle spasm is “Persistent involuntary hypertonicity of one or more muscles usually of central origin and commonly associated with pain and excessive irritability”3

References

  1. Guide to Chronic Pain Assessment Tools;Michael R. Clark
  2. Sribastav SS et al. Peer J 2017;5:e3282;
  3. Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary 2017. Muscle spasm. Available at: https://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/muscle%20spasm (accessed June 2017).