Hyperalgesia

As an excessive sensitivity to pain and hyperalgesia in response to a normally painful stimulus is called out in medicine. Stimuli that can trigger pain, for example, pressure, heat, cold or inflammation. Hyperalgesia is a form of hyperesthesia, the generic term for an excessive sensitivity to a stimulus.

Evidence of hyperalgesia resulting from the history. In the neurological examination, the affected area is touched, for example, with the pointed end of a broken wooden stick for the diagnosis of hyperalgesia. In the presence of hyperalgesia then the patient complains about excessive pain.

The symptoms of hyperalgesia, a variety of neurological diseases are based.

Delimit From the hyperalgesia allodynia. This sensation of pain is referred to, which is produced on non-painful stimuli. So fondling with a spring may be perceived as painful.

Hypalgesia or hypoalgesia on the other hand refers to a decreased sensation of pain to a normally painful stimulus.