TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Inflammation in Pain Disorders A1 - Keel, John C. A1 - Lavelle, John M. A2 - Bajwa, Zahid H. A2 - Wootton, R. Joshua A2 - Warfield, Carol A. PY - 2016 T2 - Principles and Practice of Pain Medicine, 3e AB - Pain is indeed an unpleasant experience; the perception of pain feels like damage or injury. Whether such damage is actual or potential, pain is usually described with the idioms of injury, including inflammation. The word itself conjures flames, fire, burning, redness, swelling…ouch! As students of the body, we know that inflammation refers to a complex biochemical process and is not a colloquialism to be used loosely. How often do patients describe their pain as swelling or fire, or ask “is it inflammation?” or “will this injection make the disc swelling go down?” How often are treatments variations of anti-inflammatories? Is inflammation truly there? This chapter serves as a review of evidence that there is a process of inflammation involved in some of the major conditions seen in the pain clinic: musculoskeletal pain and neuropathic pain. The general principles applicable are illustrated in detail by the specific examples of intervertebral disc disorders and complex regional pain syndrome. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/11/09 UR - accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1131930441 ER -