睡眠障碍与疼痛

Sleep disorder and pain

睡眠是人与动物的普遍生理现象,人们在日常生活中常常会出现各种各样的睡眠障碍,比如入睡困难、睡眠减少、睡眠过度和睡眠模式的改变等。疼痛是受到一定程度刺激之后产生的一种主观反应。两者之间存在着千丝万缕的联系:疼痛可以干扰人们正常的生理和心理活动,影响个体的睡眠;而不同类型的睡眠障碍又可以使机体对疼痛的敏感性发生改变。疼痛与睡眠障碍已成为临床最常见的因果关系之一。本文就睡眠障碍与疼痛的病理生理学联系及两者的相互影响作一综述。

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 pain： pain 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.