We all have had the experience of injuring ourselves. May it be a burn from a hot pan, or scraping the knee while playing football with our friends in the evening. There have been countless such incidents where we feel a burning or a stinging sensation in our body where we get injured. Let us now try to define acute pain; Acute pain is the type of pain that lasts for less than 3 to 6 months. This pain is usually milder than chronic pain that lasts for a short duration of time. A key difference between acute and chronic pain is that in case of acute pain, the painful sensation goes away. But in case of chronic pain, the pain persists even after the cause of the pain has gone away. Let us now look at the medication that helps us tackle acute pain: Soma . What is Soma? Soma is the brand version of the muscle relaxant, Carisoprodol. Carisoprodol in its simplest terms is a centrally acting muscle relaxant that helps in the stiff muscles getting relaxed and thereby bri