Talk:Somatic

This would be excellent page to use to summarize the relationship between different somatic practices. There are many contemporary systems beyond Feldenkrais and Alexander. It would be good to sort-of summarize things here.

Hans Joseph Solbrig 21:23, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

Would it be relevant to add the usage from D&D? ("Somatic component to a spell", meaning any physical or bodily motions which are performed.) -- 65.60.222.179 19:38, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

This article as currently written has little to nothing to do with Anatomy. Removing the Anatomy stub.Derek Balsam 20:29, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

I've done quite a bit of rewrite on this now, and it's cleaned up and wikified. It's long and complete enough to move out of stub status now, I think. Derek Balsam 03:34, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Somatic pain

As a paramedic student, I'd like to see "Somatic Pain" (sharp pain) be refrenced in this article.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.225.184.20 (talk) 10:26, 30 September 2006 UTC

I'm not an expert in pain medicine by any means, but my understanding is that "Somatic Pain" does not specifically mean "sharp pain", but rather pain associated with a specific localized body part, whether sharp, aching, or throbbing. It is contrasted with "Visceral Pain". Given that the meaning of Somatic in "Somatic pain" is simply "pertaining to the body", which this article already states, I'm not sure that this article itself needs revision. However, it sounds like it may be useful to have an article entitled Somatic pain if anyone has the expertise to do so, and if the term is actually notable in medicine. Derek Balsam^(talk) 00:47, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

I was just reading an article on neuropathic pain containing the statement "Nociceptive pain can be somatic or visceral in nature." I came here to this web page to better understand this distinction, as my working def. of visceral is "soft tissues of the body", primarily abdominal organs. Does somatic in this context mean "all the other parts of the body not including the viscera"? Or have these labels been applied to the pain distinction itself and lost the original body referent? I don't think we need an entire article on somatic pain, that could well be incorporated here. I added the section title above. MaxEnt 22:27, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

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