Part 1: HPI: A 78-year-old man who is to undergo a left above the knee amputation due to a limb abscess Based on the type of injury, what type of pain is this patient likely to experience?

Part 1: HPI: A 78-year-old man who is to undergo a left above the knee amputation due to a limb abscess Based on the type of injury, what type of pain is this patient likely to experience?

The patient is likely to experience both somatic acute pain classified as nociceptive and Phantom-limb pain, commonly classified as neuropathic. It has been proposed that factors in both the peripheral and central nervous systems play major roles in triggering the development and maintenance of pain associated with extremity amputation (Kuffler, 2017). Pain after amputation involves nociceptive pain, due to bone and soft tissue injury, and neuropathic pain from direct neural trauma and central sensitization (Neil, 2016)