Sleep disorder and pain
- Author:
Jing FENG
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Author Information
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords: Pain; Review literature; Sleep disorders
- From: Academic Journal of Second Military Medical University 2010;28(5):542-544
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
- Abstract: Sleep is a common physiological phenomenon of animals. We may have different kinds of sleep disorders in our daily life, such as difficulty falling asleep, insomnia, hypersomnia and changes of sleep patterns, etc. Pain is a subjective response of the body to stimuli of certain degrees. Sleep disorders are closely related to pain: pain can interfere with people's normal physiology and psychology conditions and affect individual's sleep; different kinds of sleep disorders can affect the body's sensitivity to pain. The relationship between pain and sleep disorders has become one of the most common causality in clinical esearch. In this paper we summarizes the pathophysiological relation and mutual influence between pain and sleep disorders.
