Acute Pain Resolves with healing of causative injury and has a protective biological function to protect against further injury; protective reflexes include withdrawal, muscle spasm, and autonomic reactions. Chronic Pain is a pain lasting beyond expected recovery period and identifiable pathology is insufficient to explain the pain state. It disrupts sleep and normal activities of living and does not serve a protective, adaptive function. Transitional pain care is focused on treating patients who are at risk of transitioning from acute to chronic pain following surgery to prevent the development of chronic pain and related disability.
Acute Pain Resolves with healing of causative injury and has a protective biological function to protect against further injury; protective reflexes include withdrawal, muscle spasm, and autonomic reactions.
Chronic Pain is a pain lasting beyond expected recovery period and identifiable pathology is insufficient to explain the pain state. It disrupts sleep and normal activities of living and does not serve a protective, adaptive function.
Transitional pain care is focused on treating patients who are at risk of transitioning from acute to chronic pain following surgery to prevent the development of chronic pain and related disability.