Pain Point - Glossary Of Medical Terms

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Pain point

A painful point (punctum dolorosum) is an area on the surface of the body, when the area is shaken and when pressed, a painful sensation appears.

Allocate pain points:

• Boasa - determined most often with deep palpation in patients with gastric ulcer: paravertebral on the left, level X of the thoracic - I lumbar vertebrae; with a duodenal ulcer - at the same level on the right; and gallstone disease - 8.5 cm to the right of the spinous process of the XII thoracic vertebra;
• Diagnostic - the presence of which, in any pathological process, can be a source of additional information about its localization and nature; in the absence of a pathological process, for the appearance of pain in this area, a much more enhanced effect is required;
• Retromandibular - located under the earlobe behind the upper end of the lower jaw, noted with meningitis;
• Vascular - located in such an area where the artery can be pressed against the bone, for example, at the apex of the crown, at the inner corner of the orbit.

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