Additional vocab

Question 1

Pain hologram

Answer 1

Perceptual experience liked to a hologram comprised of “laser beam” inputs from physical nervous system and fascia, cognitions, emotions, memory, and mindful contributions, differing in intensity from person to person, thereby creating the uniqueness to each person’s pain experience.

Question 2

Eudynia

Answer 2

Normal nociceptive pain; warning pain; pain as a sx; has value to the person

Question 3

Maldynia

Answer 3

Abnormal pain; pain as the disease state and not as a symptom; has no value to the person

Question 4

TANS

Answer 4

Tonically active neurons; an area in the caudate that modulates cognitive input with emotional input, interacting with memory and having output to the thalamus and basal ganglia and eventually to the motor cortex. TANS are also responsive to auditory or visual stimuli that are linked to reward.

Question 5

Tensegrity

Answer 5

Derived from a contraction of “tensional integrity” 0 structural relationship that allows for a system to yield without breaking; a term used to describe how the fascial system maintains its integrity while allowing movement of its encapsulated structures, such as muscle; a term that allows for an understanding of why the fascial system could stand on its own, if the bones and muscles were removed from the body.

Question 6

Sensory-discriminative

Answer 6

Highly localized; discrete; signal transmitted from dorsal horn via spinothalamic tract to thalamus and contralateral sensory cortex; we call it the “ouch” portion of pain

Question 7

Affective-motivational

Answer 7

Vague; not localized; signal transmitted from dorsal horn via parabrachial tract to limbic system, ACC, insula and prefrontal cortex and distributed bilaterally throughout brain; we call it the “yuck” portion of pain.