Pain lasting what length of time is considered chronic?

Answer 1

Chronic Back pain is pain felt in the back (in the muscles, joints, or other structures in the spine) for an extended period of time (medical definitions vary, but is most commonly pain that lasts for more than 6 months).

Wikipedia states that for back pain:

acute = less than 4 weeks

subacute = 4 - 12 weeks

chronic = greater than 12 weeks

Note that some pain felt in the back may not be as a result of damage to the spinal tissue. Other potential sources of back pain include infection (including kidney infection), rib damage, pregnancy, cancer, and inflammatory disease.

Answer 2

Acute pain is when the pain comes as a result of injury and relates only to that instance. For example hitting your thumb with a hammer would result in Acute Pain (it will go away). Chronic Pain is a result of illness or injury whereby the pay does not go away. For example Arthritus will result in chronic pain because the pain is a part of the illness. Chronic Pain is part of the condition and not a side effect of the injury or illness.

Answer 3

The time limit used to define chronic pain typically ranges from three to six months, although some health care professionals prefer a more flexible definition, and consider chronic pain as pain that endures beyond a normal healing time.

Answer 4

A couple possible causes of chronic pain would be stress, illness, or injury. For example, an athlete who shatters his/her ankle experiences chronic pain for quite some time until the bone is fully healed.

Answer 5

Are you struggling with chronic pain and looking for the solution. We all have a life full of rush, all day long work, sitting straight for hours and staring at your laptop screen in such kind of lifestyle maintaining one's health becomes difficult all this leads to low back pain, slip disc, sciatica pain, nerve compression or nerve block, pinched nerve, bulging discs, cervical or neck pain, or cervical spondylosis, neuropathy, etc. Chronic pain is a common problem nowadays. It's a pain that could last from weeks to years, affecting our health directly it leaves a vicious cycle of pain. previously it was known as the cause of some diseases but now WHO has defined chronic pain as the disease itself. It is a state of pathological pain sensitivity, where only a spine specialist or pain specialist can help you out.

Answer 6

Chronic pain is pain that lasts a long time.
pain all the time