3 TREATING PAIN

Question 1

PAIN

Answer 1

An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage.

Question 2

PAIN AWARENESS

Answer 2

Sensory-discriminative: where it’s felt and what it feels like.
Motivational affective: emotionally feeling/reacting to the pain.
Cognitive evaluative: intellectual awareness and expectation.

Question 3

PAIN IS INFLUENECED BY

Answer 3

Contextual factors.
Cognitive factors.
Emotional factors.
Environmental factors.

Question 4

TYPES OF PAIN

Answer 4

Acute: sudden onset.
Chronic: onset usually weeks or months after acute.
Referred: located distant to the source.
Neuropathic: pain arising as a direct consequence of a lesion or disease affecting sensory system.
Nociplastic: CNS sensitivity, not an indication of tissue damage.

Question 5

PAIN TRANSMISSION

Answer 5

Deep: unmyelinated neurons, slow transmission.
Superficial: myelinated neurons, fast transmission.

Question 6

PAIN CYCLE

Answer 6

Pain-> Guarding-> Muscle Spasm-> Loss of Function-> Physical and Psychological Dysfunction-> back to pain.

Question 7

PAIN GATE THEORY

Answer 7

If ‘gate’ is open, pain is transmitted.
If something closes the ‘gate the pain can’t be transmitted.
Something = different sensation transmitting different sensory impulses.

Question 8

BETA ENDORPHIN/ENDOGENOUS OPIOD

Answer 8

Produces similar effects as morphine.
Emotional response.