What is "bone pain"?

What is "bone pain"?

Marc Darrow (Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Joint Rehabilitation Sports Medical Center, Inc. ) gives expert video advice on: What are some specific types of chronic pain?; What is "somatic pain"?; How is somatic pain treated? and more...

Bone pain is very bad pain. Unfortunately it is typically a pain that comes from a cancer that's metastasized the bones. When the cancer gets in the bone, which can be locally, it can be what we call a primary tumor of bone, where it starts in the bone. It starts to expand within the bone and that's extremely painful. And cancer can also actually start to eat the bone away. It's "lytic" in nature, meaning the cells of the cancer will chew up the bone, and cause extreme pain from that.