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What is vascular pain?
Vascular pain is pain that develops when the communication between blood
vessels and nerves is interrupted or damaged in some way.
What causes vascular pain?
Many kinds of vascular diseases or injuries have the potential to cause pain.
Diseases such as the following often are culprits:
- vasculitis (inflammation of blood vessels)
- coronary artery disease
- circulatory problems
- vascular ruptures (breakages)
- constrictions
- spasms
- ischemia (condition in which blood supply to organs, tissues or
limbs is cut off)
- peripheral vascular disease (condition involving the narrowing
of blood vessels that carry blood to leg and arm muscles)
- trauma injuries (including accidents, stab wounds, and gunshot
wounds)
What are the symptoms of vascular pain?
Symptoms include lack of circulation, pain, or heaviness in the area affected
by vascular disease or injury. There also may be numbness, weakness, or a
tingling feeling in the affected area.
How is vascular pain treated?
Therapies to treat vascular pain can include medications, angioplasty, or
bypass surgery. Angioplasty is a procedure to reduce or eliminate blockages in
blood vessels. In bypass surgery, surgeons take a segment of a healthy blood
vessel from another part of the body and make a detour around the blocked blood
vessel. Doctors that specialize in pain management can sometimes help if the
other treatments don’t work. In selected cases pain management nerve blocks
and techniques can reduce pain and improve circulation.
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