Chapter 10 - Management of Pain & Discomfort

Question 1

Acute pain

Answer 1

Short term pain that usually results from a specific injury

Question 2

Biofeedback

Answer 2

A method whereby an individual is provided with ongoing specific information or feedback about how a particular physiological process operates so that he or she can learn how to modify that process

Question 3

Chronic benign pain

Answer 3

Pain that typically persist for six months or longer and it’s relatively intractable to treatment. The pain, berries, and severity, and may involve any of the number of muscle groups.

Question 4

Chronic progressive pain

Answer 4

Pain that persist longer than six months and increases in severity overtime, typically associated with malignancies or degenerative disorders

Question 5

Counterirritation

Answer 5

A pain control technique that involves inhibiting pain in one part of the body by stimulating or mildly irritating another area, sometimes adjacent to the area in which the pain is experienced

Question 6

Distraction

Answer 6

A pain control method that may involve either focusing on a stimulus or relevant to the pain experience or reinterpreting the pain experience redirecting attention to reduce pain

Question 7

Endogenous opioid peptides

Answer 7

Opiate like substances produced by the body

Question 8

Gate control theory of pain

Answer 8

A theory detailing how the experience of pain is reflected in sensory, psychological and behavioral responses

Question 9

Nocieption

Answer 9

The perception of pain

Question 10

Opioid Crisis

Answer 10

The over prescription and overuse of opioid drugs, including prescription pain relievers, heroin, and synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl resulting in high rates of addiction, disability, and death

Question 11

Pain behaviors

Answer 11

Behaviors that results in response to paint such as cutting back on work or taking drugs

Question 12

Pain control

Answer 12

The ability to reduce the experience of pain report, a Payne, emotional concern of a pain in ability to tell her pain or presence of pain related behaviors

Question 13

Pain management programs

Answer 13

Coordinated inter-disciplinary efforts to modify chronic pain by bringing together neurological, cognitive, behavioral and psychodynamic expertise concerning pain

Search programs aim not only to make pain more manageable, but also to modify the lifestyle that has a evolved because of the pain

Question 14

Pain-prone personality

Answer 14

A constellation of personality traits that predisposes a person to experience chronic pain

Question 15

Recurrent acute pain

Answer 15

Pain that involves a series of intermittent episodes of pain that are acute in character, but chronic, and as much as the condition persist for more than six months

Examples include migraines or muscle spasms