Referred Pain - Examples

Examples

Location Description
Upper chest/left limb Myocardial ischaemia (the loss of blood flow to a part of the heart muscle tissue) is possibly the best known example of referred pain; the sensation can occur in the upper chest as a restricted feeling, or as an ache in the left shoulder, arm or even hand.
Head “Ice-cream headache” or “brain freeze” is another example of referred pain, in which the vagus nerve or the trigeminal nerve in the throat and the palate, respectively, transmit pain signals, because of the rapid cooling and rewarming of the capillaries in the sinuses.
General Phantom limb pain, a type of referred pain, is the sensation of pain from a limb that has been lost or from which a person no longer receives physical signals. It is an experience almost universally reported by amputees and quadriplegics.
Right Tip of scapula. Liver, gallbladder
Left shoulder Thoracic diaphragm (Kehr's sign), lung
Back Pancreas

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