Neuropathic pain results from nerve damage and can manifest as shooting, stabbing, shock-like, or burning sensations.

“We refer to that as neuropathic pain. So that's another distinction you brought up nicely. Good segue into there's thought to be several different types or categories of pain. We have been talking through much of this time about somatic pain, injury out here. We talked about visceral pain. And when you have damage to a peripheral nerve, damage, injury to a peripheral nerve or the central nervous system, we refer to that as neuropathic pain. It frequently has different qualities, different characteristics. People will refer to it as shooting, stabbing, shock-like, burning.”