- Allodynia: Pain due to a stimulus that does not normally provoke pain.
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- Hyperalgesia: Increased pain from a stimulus that normally provokes pain.
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- Central sensitization: Increased responsiveness of nociceptive neurons in the central nervous system to their normal or subthreshold afferent input.
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- Nociceptive pain: Pain that arises from actual or threatened damage to non-neural tissue and is due to the activation of nociceptors.
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- Neuropathic pain: Pain caused by a lesion or disease of the somatosensory nervous system.
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- Nociplastic pain: Pain that arises from altered nociception despite no clear evidence of actual or threatened tissue damage causing the activation of peripheral nociceptors or evidence for disease or lesion of the somatosensory system causing the pain.
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