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.
See Types of Back Pain: Acute Pain, Chronic Pain, and Neuropathic Pain. 1  Subacute low back pain. Lasting between 6 weeks and 3 months, this type of pain is usually mechanical in nature (such as a muscle strain or joint pain) but is prolonged. 2  Chronic back pain.