Can you feel pain without an injury?
Severe pain can be experienced when there is no tissue injury. In fact, the pain of a severe injury may even take hold after an injury has healed. There is no correlation between pain levels and the extent of tissue injury. Pain can be present without tissue injury and tissue injury can be present without pain.
Can you have knee pain without an injury?
Sometimes though, knee pain occurs without a preceding injury. In those cases, it can be tempting to ignore the pain at first to see if it subsides on its own. The problem is, even though you might not have had an accident, the issue causing your pain can still be serious.
What happens to your body when you get an injury?
In fact, sudden pain is an important reaction of the nervous system that helps alert you to possible injury. When an injury occurs, pain signals travel from the injured area up your spinal cord and to your brain. Pain will usually become less severe as the injury heals.
How long does chronic pain last after injury?
Pain will usually become less severe as the injury heals. However, chronic pain is different from typical pain. With chronic pain, your body continues to send pain signals to your brain, even after an injury heals. This can last several weeks to years.
What’s the difference between chronic and temporary knee pain?
Temporary knee pain is different from chronic knee pain. Many people experience temporary knee pain as a result of an injury or accident. Chronic knee pain rarely goes away without treatment, and it isn’t always attributable to one incident. It’s most often the result of several causes or conditions. Physical…
Is there pain when there is no injury?
But just like in the acute pain examples, there can be pain present when there was never an injury to begin with. It’s a danger signal that is sort of a false alarm and the signal just doesn’t shut off. In either case, injury or no injury, pain can be present or persist for many different reasons.
How is chronic pain related to an injury?
What we do know is that chronic and persistent pain are most often NOT associated with an injury or tissue damage, even if it began with an injury. Pain is an output of the brain that indicates it has detected some threat to the self.
Temporary knee pain is different from chronic knee pain. Many people experience temporary knee pain as a result of an injury or accident. Chronic knee pain rarely goes away without treatment, and it isn’t always attributable to one incident. It’s most often the result of several causes or conditions. Physical…
Why is chronic pain considered an invisible disability?
What this translates into is denying a disability because it is invisible to the naked eye. What would help me at this point would be to have practitioners who are not only more well-versed in chronic pain, but are willing to acknowledge its disabling impacts on their patients.