Neuropathic and neurogenic pain is pain that arises from dysfunction of the nervous system. Neuropathic pain may have some or all of the following features:
- a burning quality
- pain produced by longitudinal loading and moving the nerve
- spontaneous pain not provoked by any movement (shooting pain)
- latent pain (pain onset or increase minutes or hours after performing the aggravating activity)
- pins and needles (paraesthesia)
- sensitivity to cold
- pain reaction out of all proportion to the aggravating incident or activity (hyperalgesia)
- pain from an action or posture that would not normally be painful (allodynia)
- sensitivity to compression of the arm (blood pressure cuff)