Never hold back pain as a ＂signal＂ of physical illness.

At the free clinic, Chief Physician Li Heng understood the patient’s condition.

　　In order to welcome World Analgesia Day on October 15th, 2019 and China Analgesia Week from October 15th to 21st, and popularize the knowledge of prevention and treatment of chronic pain, the Pain Department of Qingyuan People’s Hospital held a free clinic on World Analgesia Day in the outpatient building.

　　Experts say that when there is pain, it means that the body sends a "signal" of the disease, indicating that a certain part has a lesion. If citizens encounter severe pain, they must see a specialist in time, instead of taking painkillers themselves.

　　The hospital has a pain specialist clinic.

　　According to statistics, there are as many as 80 million patients with chronic pain in China, less than 65% of them go to medical institutions, less than 28% receive traditional medicine treatment, and less than 0.002% receive neuromodulation therapy.

　　What is the principle of pain? What is pain? It is understood that pain is an unpleasant feeling caused by the human body’s own injuries, including acute and chronic injuries. Pain can be divided into physiological and pathological. Physiological pain is the acute response of the body to harmful stimuli under normal circumstances. Pathological pain is produced in different disease situations or pathological processes. Chronic pain is a pathological pain.

　　Liu Qinxiang, chief consultant and chief physician of anesthesiology department, said that pain has been listed as the fifth vital sign after respiration, pulse, blood pressure and body temperature by modern medicine, and tens of millions of people are suffering from pain every year. Qingyuan People’s Hospital has set up a pain outpatient department. Every day, more than ten to twenty patients come to register for consultation, including cancer patients, trigeminal neuralgia, neuralgia after herpes zoster, etc. "Especially trigeminal neuralgia, the pain is like discharge, which is very tormenting."

　　Liu Qinxiang said that the pain department uses nerve block therapy, ozone injection therapy, radiofrequency thermocoagulation therapy, super laser pain therapy and spinal nerve electrical stimulation system implantation to treat headaches, neuralgia, osteoarthralgia and other diseases. "Let the pain patients use the least amount of drugs to achieve the maximum analgesic effect, which is also the difficult problem that the pain department needs to overcome and the direction of efforts."

　　Long-term chronic pain will cause sleep disorder and mental disorder, and then cause dysfunction of human nervous system, endocrine system, cardiovascular system, digestive system and other systems, thus inducing various complications. Therefore, if you have pain, don’t tolerate it. You must go to the pain department of the hospital for standardized treatment.

　　You can’t take the medicine if you feel pain.

　　In medicine, pain is generally divided into three levels: mild, moderate and severe. At present, the common methods to distinguish pain include visual analogue scale and oral balance. Visual analogue scale set the range of pain to 0-10, in which 0-3 is mild pain, 4-6 is moderate pain, 7-9 is severe pain, and 10 is the most severe pain. Generally, mild pain does not need to be treated deliberately, but it needs to be specially stated that it is necessary to distinguish specific pain situations under the guidance of professional doctors.

　　In fact, many pathological pains are diseases that seriously affect the quality of life and work of patients, and people gradually realize the importance of pain. The pain came, and some of it was unbearable. Pain is caused by different reasons, and it also shows different types, such as poor sitting posture and muscle strain caused by sedentary, or muscle weakness caused by lack of exercise, which is easy to cause neck, shoulder, back pain; With the increase of age, the probability of osteoarthritis will increase, which will lead to joint pain, swelling and limited activities.

　　However, some patients think that the pain is over and they don’t take it to heart. Li Heng, director of the Department of Anesthesiology, believes that as the saying goes, "It hurts to death" is not a joke. Before, a patient always thought that he had a stomachache and didn’t pay much attention to it, but eventually he died. "In fact, this patient is not a stomachache, but a myocardial infarction."

　　Li Heng, director of the Department of Anesthesiology, suggested that if citizens have severe pain, they must see a specialist in time instead of taking painkillers themselves. In his view, the occurrence of pain means that the body sends out a "signal" of the disease, indicating that there is a lesion in a certain part. At this time, it is necessary to find out the reasons behind the pain and treat the symptoms through "treating the root cause". If you blindly become a "ninja", it will delay the best opportunity for disease treatment. (Peng Keming, Liu Qiuyi, Qin Weixuan)