Application of electrostimulation in the treatment of pain syndrome in diseases of the peripheral nervous system

Diseases of the peripheral nervous system account for almost half of the neurological morbidity of the adult population. One of the leading clinical signs of peripheral nervous system disorders is pain. With all the commonplace simplicity of the concept "pain", the scientific definition of this specific feeling is associated with significant difficulties of epistemological nature. One of the essential moments of correct understanding and estimation of pain phenomenon is its division into primary and secondary, which is based on the classification suggested by Gode in 1881, which distinguishes protopathic and epicritic pain, that is identical to division of pain into acute and chronic.