| Nociceptive pain |
Pain from nociceptor activation in response to actual or threatened damage to non-neural
tissue
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| Discogenic pain |
Pain from nociceptive signaling within the intervertebral disc |
| Myofascial pain |
Pain from nociceptive signaling from within muscle or fascial tissues that may or
may not include referred pain or the presence of trigger points
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| Sacroiliac joint pain |
Pain from nociceptive signaling within and surrounding a sacroiliac joint(s) |
| Zygapophyseal (facet) joint pain |
Pain from nociceptive signaling within and surrounding a zygapophyseal (facet) joint(s) |
| Neuropathic pain |
Pain caused by a lesion or disease of the somatosensory nervous system |
| Radicular pain |
Pain from ectopic activation of nociceptive afferent fibers in a spinal nerve or its
roots, or from other neuropathic mechanisms (eg, inflammation, tensile strain)
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| Radiculopathy |
Objective sensory and/or motor function loss caused by conduction block in axons of
a spinal nerve or its roots
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| Neurogenic claudication |
Pain from intermittent compression and/or ischemia of a single or multiple nerve roots
within an intervertebral foramen or the central spinal canal
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| Peripheral neuropathic pain |
Pain from inflammation, compression, or entrapment of peripheral nerves in the lumbar
region
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| Piriformis syndrome |
Pain from inflammation, compression, and/or entrapment of the sciatic nerve in the
vicinity of the piriformis muscle
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| Thoracolumbar syndrome |
Pain from cluneal nerve entrapment causing low back and/or lower extremity symptoms |
| Sensitization |
Increased responsiveness of nociceptive neurons to their normal input, and/or recruitment
of a response to normally subthreshold inputs
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| Central sensitization |
Increased responsiveness of nociceptive neurons in the central nervous system to their
normal or subthreshold afferent input
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| Peripheral sensitization |
Increased responsiveness and reduced threshold of nociceptive neurons in the periphery
to the stimulation of their receptive fields
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