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Pain In Cats, When Could This Have A Neurological Cause?
E. Beltran
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Pain in cats is generally the result of a veterinarian’s subjective evaluation of the cat’s behavior on either direct observation of the posture/gait and/or direct palpation and manipulation of the patient. Many diseases in feline medicine cause pain, including neurological and non-neurological causes. The most important and sometimes the most difficult part is identifying the aetiology and the mechanisms of the pain, so treatment and prognosis can be directed to a specific cause.
Understanding pain as an unpleasant feeling that is transport to the brain by sensory neurons, there are different terms that we need to get familiar with:
Allodynia - painful sensation caused by innocuous stimuli such as light touch.
Hyperaesthesia/Hyperalgesia - increased pain from a stimulus that usually provokes pain
Hyperpathia – a nociceptive stimuli that evokes exaggerated levels of pain
Neuropathic pain - Pain caused by a disease or lesion causing dysfunction of the somatosensory system
Paraesthesia - abnormal sensation (such as tingling, tickling, burning, “Skin crawling) of the skin with no apparent physical cause ...
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