Glossary

A sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage

A disease that causes a loss of calcium that leads to an increased risk of fracture National Osteoporosis Foundation

An infection of the bone or bone marrow

Also known as degenerative arthritis or degenerative joint disease is a group of diseases and mechanical abnormalities involving degradation of joints

Occurs in the back of the head at the base of the skull. Referred to headache with neck pain.

A sensory receptor that reacts to potentially damaging stimuli by sending nerve signals to the spinal cord and brain

The activity produced in the peripheral and central nervous system by stimuli that have the potential to damage tissue

Nerve pain characterized by sharp, stabbing, burning pain which is caused by damage to or dysfunction of the peripheral or central nervous system

Procedure designed to destroy nerve endings responsible for the sensation of pain with the use of cold or heat.

Inflammation of a nerve or the general inflammation of the peripheral nervous system