Such as fire, electric shock, knife cutting, insect drilling, ant crawling...... These descriptions are only part of the experience of patients with pain. In their opinion, the pain is too severe to describe in words.

However, most people choose to tolerate pain. Data shows that in China, more than 20% of people have experienced physical pain, only 0% will take action in time, and even 0% choose to "let time heal the pain".

This year, 210 is World Pain Relief Day. The perception of pain is directly related to the timeliness of diagnosis and treatment of patients, and also affects their quality of life.

According to the latest revision of the definition by the International Society of Pain, pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional-emotional experience, or an experience similar to this, associated with actual or potential tissue damage.

"The basis of pain is the damage to the body's tissues, so the appearance of pain means that there is damage to a certain tissue, organ or part, which needs to be paid attention to." Recently, Feng Dan, director of the pain department and chief physician of Wuhan First Hospital, said in an interview with Jiupai News.

He introduced that pain can affect patients' life, work, mood, and if it continues, it will also affect rest, eating and even sleeping. "In the long run, immunity will inevitably decline."

A woman feels lower back pain. Photo/VCG

In fact, as early as 2004, the International Society of Pain proposed that "pain freedom is the basic right of patients".

"Patience is definitely not a virtue." Feng Dan, who is deeply involved in pain treatment in clinical practice, bluntly said that enduring pain will only cover up the condition and is not conducive to early detection of diseases. Blindly tolerating pain may also complicate simple diseases. If you feel pain, it is recommended to treat it as soon as possible.

When the pain is not relieved in time and lasts for more than a month, "chronic pain" has been formed. In 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) was revised to include chronic pain as a stand-alone disease in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-0) for the first time.

《中国疼痛医学发展报告（2020）》显示，我国慢性疼痛患者超过3亿人，且正以每年1000万至2000万的速度增长。疼痛已成为继心脑血管疾病、肿瘤之后第三大健康问题，严重影响人们健康。

According to the "Research Report on the Field of Pain in Five Regions in China", the most common chronic pain in outpatient clinics in China is neck, shoulder, waist and leg pain, neuralgia, cancer pain, and soft tissue pain.

However, "pain contains so much information that it is difficult for non-specialists to distinguish between them. Feng Dan explained that internal organs, cervical and lumbar spine diseases, and joint soft tissues can all cause pain, but it is difficult for ordinary people to distinguish which cause is specific.

Therefore, he reminded that sudden severe pain in important areas such as the head, chest, back, abdomen, etc., requires immediate medical attention; General pain in important areas for more than one day should be taken seriously; Pain in non-important areas should be treated promptly after more than three days.

Jiupai News reporter Hu Bingyue

Edited by Gu Zixuan and Wu Feifei

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