Parameters | Acute Pain | Chronic Pain |
Nature of Pain | Acute pain can last anywhere between a few moments to a few months. This type of pain can last for a maximum of 5-6 months. If it persists for more than 6 months, then it has turned into chronic pain. | Chronic pain is a kind of pain that lasts for more than 6-8 months after an injury or accident or after starting suddenly/inexplicably without a specific cause. Environmental and psychological factors also affect chronic pain. |
Causes and Symptoms | The causesof acute pain can be as follows:
The symptomsof acute pain are as follows:
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The causesof chronic pain include some of the causes of acute pain, and some other causes as well. Chronic pain can also have unknown causes, which are difficult to determine, congenital causes or sometimes no real cause. Most of the causes of chronic pain are listed below:
A few general symptomsof chronic pain are as follows:
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Effects of Pain | Acute pain almost never has any long-term psychological effects, other than wariness of the object or thing that has caused the pain for the first time. But it does have a few short-term physical effectsas follows:
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The physical effectsof chronic pain are as follows:
The psychological effectsof chronic pain are:
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Treatment and Cure | The treatments for acute pain include the following:
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What are some option for chronic pain:
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