Ashley Nichole's Pain

Question 1

Pain

Answer 1

pain is whatever the person says it is, and exists whenever he says it does.

Question 2

An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with acuteal or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage.

Answer 2

Pain

Question 3

pain is a physical and _____ experience, not all in the body or all in the mind.

Answer 3

emotional

Question 4

Reffered Pain

Answer 4

Pain that appears to arise in different areas

Question 5

Visceral Pain

Answer 5

Pain arising from organs or hollow viscera

Question 6

Acute Pain

Answer 6

when pain last only through the expected recovery period.

Question 7

Chronic pain

Answer 7

is prolonged, usually recurring or lasting 3 moths or longer.

Question 8

Cancer Pain

Answer 8

may result from the direct effects of the disease and its treatment, or it may be unrelated.

Question 9

Pain on a 1-3 range

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Mild pain

Question 10

Pain with a rating of 4-6 is

Answer 10

moderate pain

Question 11

pain reaching 7-10 on the pain scale is deemed

Answer 11

severe pain and is associated with the worst outccomes.

Question 12

Nociceptive Pain

Answer 12

experienced when an intact, properly functioing nervous system sends signals that tissues are damaged requiring attention for proper care.

(e.g. cut or broken bone…)

Question 13

When there is Nociceptive pain, and the pain goes away after wound is healed or stablized, the pain is known as.

Answer 13

Transient Pain.

Question 14

Pain that occurs as chronic pain due to bone to bone contact that damages the tissue as in osteoarthristis is what type of pain?

Answer 14

Nociceptive

Question 15

What are two sub categories of Nociceptive Pain?

Answer 15

Somatic and Visceral

Question 16

Pain that originates in the skin, muscles, bone, or connective tissue is known as

Answer 16

Somatic Pain

Question 17

The pain that is characterized as cramping, throbbing, pressing, or aching qualities that can be assocciated with a feeling sick like sweating, nausea, or vomiting.

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Visceral Pain

(ex. labor pain, angina pectoris, or irritable bowel.

Question 18

Pain associated with damaged or malfunctioing nerves due to illness, injury, or undetermined reasons.

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Neuropathic

Question 19

Is Neuropathic pain considered acute or chronic?

Answer 19

Chronic

( this is due to the fact that neuropathic pain is difficult to treat )

Question 20

What are the two subtypes of neuropathic pain?

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Peripheral neuropathic pain and Central neuropathic pain.

Question 21

Peripheral neuropathic pain

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pain that follows damage or sensitization of peripheral nerves.

(phantom limb pain, post herpetic neuralgia, carpal tunnel syndrome)

Question 22

Central neuropathic pain

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results from malfunctioning nerves in the central nervous system (CNS)

(spinal cord injury pain, poststoke pain, multiple sclerosis pain)

Question 23

Pain that occurs ocassionally when abnormal connections between pain fibers and the sympathetic nevous system perpeuate probelems with both the pain and sympathetcally controlled functions.

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Sympathetically maintained pain.

Question 24

Pain Threshold

Answer 24

the least amount of stimuli that is needed fora person to label a sensation as pain

Question 25

Pain toerance

Answer 25

the maximum amount of painful stimuli that a person is willing to withstand without seeking avoidance of the pain or relief.

Question 26

what are two terms that are used interchangably to denote hightened responses to a painful stimuli.

Answer 26

hyperalgesia and hyperpathia

Question 27

hyperalgesia

Answer 27

increased sensitivity to pain.

Question 28

hyperpathia

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abnormally exaggerated subjective response to painful stimuli.

Question 29

Allodynia

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nonpainful stiumli

(e.g light touch, contact with linen, water, or wind.)

Question 30

Dysesthesia

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an unpleasant abnormal sensation.

Question 31

A pain state (generally severe) for which there is no cure possibly even after accepted medical evaluation and treatements have been implemented. The focus of tereatment turns from cure to pain reducaiton, functioanal improvements, and the enhancement of quatlity of life.

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Intractable pain.

Question 32

An increased sensitivity of a receptor after repeated activation by noxious stimuli

Answer 32

Sensitization

Question 33

Progressive increase in excitability and sensitivity of a recptor after repeated activation by noxious stimuli.

Answer 33

Sensitization

Question 34

Progressive increase in excitability and sensitivity of spinal cord neurons, leading to persistent, inreased pain.

Answer 34

Windup