Nociceptive pain occurs due to tissue damage caused by trauma, surgery pr chemical burns. It might occur mostly in your leg, arm and back pain. It feels like throbbing and sharp aching. It occurs due to burns, fracture, cuts, bruises, joint damage, etc.
Nociceptive Pain is usually acute and tends to go away when the affected body part heals. It occurs in response to discomfort caused by the damage to your tissue. It commonly affects your muscles, bones and joints. It is a pain that occurs when inflammation in your joint causes arthritis or when a kidney stone travels through bladder.
It is detected by nociceptors or the nerves present in the body that helps in detecting acute pain caused due to inflammation, swelling or abrasion. It is described as a achy, sharp, cramping and throbbing like pain. It ranges from mild to severe depending upon the injury. Sometimes coughing ad laughing could make it more painful.
Nociceptive Pain could also be caused due to internal problem like cancer or tumor.
Generally, in most of the cases, Nociceptive Pain is treated by providing temporary pain relievers. If you break your leg then first doctor will set your fractured bone and then he will provide you painkiller medication for initial shock. When the bone starts to get heal then pain will subside. You can perform physical therapy to strengthen your injured muscle or joints. Sometimes you might require surgeries to treat underlying conditions. Yoga, medication will help you can lot to control your pain. You can also go through medical procedures to block nerve receptions.
When a tissue gets damaged by physical or chemical agents like surgery, injury, trauma or chemical burns then Nociceptive Pain arises.
When you feel extreme sensitivity to touch, or insensitivity to heat or cold, and tingling like sensations then you are having nociceptive pain. You might also experience numbness, muscle weakness and sharp shooting, or stabbing pain in your body.
If the Nociceptive pain originates from the skin then it could easily be localized but in case, it originates from deeper structures that includes muscles and viscera then it gets difficult to localize Nociceptive pain.
Our body surface i.e. skin contains large numbers of free nerve endings that are known as nociceptors. This is the reason why our skin is so much sensitive towards the pain.
When you experience pain due to sports injury, or due to dental procedure or due to arthritis then it is referred to as Nociceptive Pain. It is a medical term that describes pain as potential damage occurred to the body.
