### symptom:

Pain
* All pain is the separation that occurs because of the closing of our hearts to love.
* More pain means less activity, thereby causing more weight gain.
* Most pain associated with cancer is produced by a tumor pressing on nerves, bones or other organs
  - causes health problems
  - is accompanied by sensation
* Most pain is caused by conditions
  - disc diseases
  - inflammation
  - skin inflammation
  - due to insufficient strength in the muscle groups
  - worsened by specific types of stimulation and improved by other stimuli
  - starts when part of the body is hurt
* Some pain causes hypersecretions
  - contributes to headaches
* Some pain is caused by battle wounds
  - blockage
  - break bones
  - damage
  - deterioration
  - disorder
  - gravity
  - injuries
  - muscles
  - osteoarthritises
  - sport injuries
  - syndromes
  - tissue damage
  - relates to tension
  - seems to have no relationship to past disease, injury or damage to the nervous system
  - syndromes respond better to Darvon.
  * Most pain starts when part of the body is hurt. Nerves in that part send messages to the brain. Those messages tell the brain that the body is being damaged. Pain is not just the message the nerve sends to the brain. It is the bad emotion felt because of that damage
* activates the limbic system.
* affects patients physically, emotionally, psychologically, socially, and occupationally
  - sexuality in many ways
* always has a psychological component.
* are in the form of severe aches and prostration.
* associates with bone degeneration
  - burn mouth syndromes
  - compartment syndromes
  - heart diseases
  - skeletal damage
  - surgery
  - system disorder
  - tissue surgery
* becomes concern
  - part of the learned response, part of the perception of pain
* begins and ends with the brain.
* begins at a certain point and radiates from there in every direction
  - the level of the cells
* brings about reflex muscle activity and a vicious cycle called muscle spasm is born.
* can be a great source of pleasure and suffering can be joyous
  - mental state that is formed into something physical
  - powerful catalyst for transformation
  - signal that sensation is returning to a part of the body or psyche that has gone numb
  - considered a potent source of stress, that stressor
  - difficult to detect because of individual and species variation
  - emotional, imagined or physical
  - persistent because of abnormal excitability in the nervous system
  - present without infection, and occasionally infection is present without pain
  - severe and make a person unable to perform normal activities
  - so overwhelming in one part of the body that the rest of the body gets neglected
  - sudden, perhaps due to an accident, or it can be chronic, as in arthritis
  - worse when the person is standing up, and from changing position
  - come on suddenly, and often shift around, being worse from motion and worse at night
  - extend to the fingers and hands, causing weakness
* cans have causes
  - effects
  - negative effects
* cans have strong effects
* causes distress and suffering which contributes to the stress of hospitalization
  - fear
  - many people to miss work, and that costs money
  - some people to withdraw from friends and relatives
  - stress and emotional disturbances, and can interfere with sleep
  - tension and tightening up of the affected area of the body
  - unhappinesses
* causing disuse or disability of the hands major problem among the elderly.
* come on periodically, are jerking, pulsating , tearing, and date back to malarial fever.
* comes from an abnormal state of some part of the nervous system
  - inflammation and irritation of local nerve endings
* comes in many forms
  - shapes
  - paroxysms, often with gas and burping, or with nausea
  - with birth and pain comes with growth
* defines how and when attention prays.
* develops slowly and comes and goes for years before limitations are experienced.
* disorganizes babies.
* exists on a scale from a minor irritation to excruciating suffering
  - spiritual as well as on a physical level
* extends to eyes and forehead.
* following walking or running can be the sign of an underlying hip problem.
* has causes
  - characteristics
  - origins
  - quality
* improves during the day and often increases again during the evening.
* increases with movement.
* interferes with sleep, appetite and activity level and also affects emotional well being
  - the normal behavior patterns of eating, sleeping, and elimination
* involves cognition, emotion, and behaviour.
* is accompanied by burn sensation.
* is accompanied by intense burn sensation
  - always an alarm or signal that something is wrong
  - as much a mental as a physiological phenomenon
  - bands
  - discomfort
  - ear infection
  - experiencings
  - feelings
* is located in asses
  - backs
  - bodies
  - body parts
  - dentists
  - necks
  - war
  - medical conditions
* is part of life
* is present in manipulation, usually extension of the affected joint
  - the region of the sacroiliac joint
  - with walking especially when pushing off on the toes
  - so important to survival that almost the whole brain is involved
* is used for hurt
* lasting longer than several weeks is considered chronic.
* needs to be addressed in older persons because of the impact pain has on movement and mobility.
* occur in the face, abdomen, along the course of the nerves.
* occurs as a burning sensation, an ache, a stabbing or seizing jolt
  - result of the inflamed pericardium rubbing against the heart
  - equally in relapsing-remitting and progressive disease
  - frequently and most often during watery bowel movements or vomiting
* occurs in patients
  - the lower abdomen, in the urinary or vaginal tract
  - spontaneously or can be provoked by touch, temperature or movement
* occurs when normal tension on a ligament stretches the fibers
  - the inflamed pericardium rubs on the heart
* occurs when there is pressure from the herniated disc on the nerve roots or spinal cord
  - ruptured vein, inflammation due to prolapse, or an anal fissure
  - while walking and pain stops when resting
* occurs with activity and decreases with rest
  - iliopsoas tendonitis
  - sitting, moving, defecating, and even coughing
* often begins after eating and goes away after a bowel movement
  - comes only with infection
  - radiates to the ear on the same side as the affected tonsil
  - travel downward in heart attacks
* perpetuates pain.
* poses problems.
* produces anxiety and depression and fear.
* puts stress on the cardiac and respiratory systems.
* radiates to backs
  - deltoid and biceps and pain at night
  - lower backs
  - the frontal sinuses and head
* radiating from the back to the legs is an indication of a pinched or irritated nerve.
* sacramentalizes significant change in self, society, and world.
* sometimes increase gradually and decrease gradually
  - spreads to affect the entire head and is worsened by physical activity
* spikes about the time of puberty.
* starts in peripheral tissue when receptors are stimulated at the site of injury
  - when mucus or pus builds up behind the eardrum
* steals a person's energy and becomes the focus of daily life.
* syndromes in patients with cancer.
* takes energy that is better used to fight disease and to do more normal things like playing.
* tends to be influenced by posture and is associated with a waddling gait
  - increase with activity
  - worsen with stress and tension
+ Pain, Kinds of pain:
  * Pain can be 'acute' or 'chronic'. Acute means it only happens a short time. Chronic means the pain lasts a long time.