Examples of occasional in a Sentence. She receives occasional phone calls from her mother. There will be occasional showers during the morning. Most mornings, we'll see deer or the occasional bear walking past our house. He tells an occasional joke to keep his students interested. I need to take occasional breaks from work. Sure, I drink an occasional glass of wine from time to time. She's an occasional lecturer at the university.
The different kinds of pain. There are three basic types of pain, depending upon what physical mechanism in the body is causing the symptom: somatic, neuropathic, and visceral. A fourth kind, mixed, is a combination of the others. It's important to know what basic kind of pain is present, because treatment differs.
1 Muscle pain: This is often less intense than bone pain, but it can still be debilitating. 2  Muscle pain can be caused by an injury, an autoimmune reaction, loss of blood flow to the muscle, infection, or a tumor.3  The pain can also include muscle spasms and cramps.ome of the more common types of pain include: 1  Bone pain: This is usually deep, penetrating, or dull. 2  It most commonly results from injury. 3  It is important to be sure that the pain is not related to a fracture or tumor. 4  Muscle pain: This is often less intense than bone pain, but it can still be debilitating.