Allodynia, meaning "other pain", is an exaggerated response to otherwise non-noxious stimuli and can be either static or mechanical. Allodynia is not referred pain, but can occur in other areas than the one stimulated; it is also dysesthetic. For example, a person with allodynia may perceive light pressure or the movement of clothes over the skin as painful, whereas a healthy individual will not feel pain
Extreme tenderness of the skin It results from nerve damage causing hypersensitivity of the pain receptors in that area
Pain due to a stimulus that does not normally provoke pain The original definition adopted by the IASP committee was pain due to non-noxious stimulus to the normal skin Allodynia involves a change in the quality of a sensation, tactile, thermal, or of any other kind The usual response to a stimulus was not painful, but the present response is
(al-o-DIN-e-uh) An altered sensation in which normally nonpainful events are felt as pain