What is a Referred Pain?
A pain which is felt at the distant site from the organ diseased but not felt at the diseased organ itself is referred pain. Didn't get it? ..
When a part of body organ is damaged or diseased you will not feel pain there, instead you will feel it on some other distant organ. That is basically the referred pain.
That's strange, isn't it?..How & Why would a person feel pain on the distant site and not on the involved site? Is it an abnormal thing? is …show more content…
Radiating pain
Here, pain occurs at one site at first and then pain occurs to another site but pain persists at the original site. For example, in gastric ulcer pain is usually felt at epigastrium but when it perforates pain will be also felt at back. The first pain here is referred pain but radiated pain is due to peritoneal involvement.
Thats all for today my friends . In this post we have learned some basics of pain, mechanism and medical importance of Referred pain.We learned that its a glitch in the nervous system but a a very useful one. And we have also learned some different types of pain.
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