Alexandra gets up in the middle of the night and walks to the kitchen in the dark to avoid waking up her roommate. She stubs her
big toe on the living room couch that her roommate moved in the middle of the night for a game of twister with her friends. Alexandra's toe hurts so bad that she falls to the ground and curses. Alexandra is experiencing ______ pain.
Acute pain is a type of pain that is generally related to the damaged of soft tissue such as the one on Alexandra's big toe, in other words, the skin and muscles of her big toe. Acute pain is sharp and severe, but it goes away in a short time, which can vary from some minutes to some months.
