What is "acute pain"?

What is "acute pain"?

Marc Darrow (Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Joint Rehabilitation Sports Medical Center, Inc. ) gives expert video advice on: What causes pain?; How do doctors determine the source of specific pains? and more...

Acute pain is very simple, but that doesn't mean that it's good or bad, and it doesn't mean that it is intense or light. People think of acute pain meaning very bad pain, but it's not it's a chronicity, it just means that the pain is very new. Typically pain is considered acute from the time of injury or the time it starts, to approximately three to six months.