Neurological pain, or neuropathic pain, arises from damage or dysfunction in the nervous system itself, rather than from an injury being sensed normally. It often feels different from typical pain, described as burning, shooting, tingling, or electric-shock-like, and can occur even without an obvious external cause.
Understanding Neurological Pain: Types and Causes
Dr. Arun Oommen
Dr Arun Oommen is the consultant neurosurgeon at VPS Lakeshore Hospital and Research Centre, Kochi, Kerala, India. After his super specialty training and fellowship training in Neuro endoscopy, he has worked in various super specialty centres before joining Lakeshore hospital. He is an expert in handling various neurosurgical cases and has vast surgical experience in areas like Neuro Oncology, Neuro Trauma and Neuro critical care, Neuro Navigation, Steriotaxic Neurosurgery, Neuro endoscopy, and spine problems including Spine instrumentation. He is the editor cum advisor of Medcrave online journal of Neurology and stroke. He is also the editor of the Open access journal of neurology and Neurosurgery .