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Chronic pain classification

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Overview

Nociception (pain) may arise from injury or disease to visceral, somatic and neural structures in the body. More broadly pain is described as malignant or non-malignant in origin.[1]

References

  1. Vanderah TW (2007). “Pathophysiology of pain”. Med. Clin. North Am. 91 (1): 1–12. PMID 17164100.


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