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Acute

Short duration, sudden, associated with injury, surgery or acute illness

Chronic

Lasts several months or longer, sustained by pathophysiologic process

Pain

Unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with tissue damage

Nociceptive pain

Tissue damage to skin

Neuropathic pain

Consequence of a lesion or disease

OPQRST

onset, provoking, quality, region, severity, time