Sleep disorder and pain / 第二军医大学学报

ABSTRACT

Sleep is a common physiological phenomenon of animals.We may have different kinds of sleep disorders in our daily life,such as difficulty falling asleep,insomnia,hypersomnia and changes of sleep patterns,etc.Pain is a subjective response of the body to stimuli of certain degrees.Sleep disorders are closely related to painpain can interfere with people's normal physiology and psychology conditions and affect individual's sleep;different kinds of sleep disorders can affect the body' s sensitivity to pain.The relationship between pain and sleep disorders has become one of the most common causality in clinical research.In this paper we summarizes the pathophysiological relation and mutual influence between pain and sleep disorders.