Chronic facial pain Flashcards
What are the three dimensions of pain?
Sensory
Motivational
Cognitive
What does allodynia mean?
Pain due to a stimulus that does not normally provoke pain.
What does hyperalgesia mean?
heightened pain from a stimulus that does usually produce pain
What is paresthesia?
An abnormal sensation, whether spontaneous or evoked.
What is dysthesia?
an unpleasant abnormal sensation
what is neuralgia?
A paroxysmal and often severe pain in the distribution of a sensory nerve or nerves.
What is neuropathic pain?
Pain caused by a lesion or disease of the somatosensory nervous system.
What is neuropathy?
A disturbance of function or pathological change in a nerve: in one nerve, mononeuropathy; in several nerves, mononeuropathy multiplex; if diffuse and bilateral, polyneuropathy.
What is the definition of chronic pain?
Longer than 3 months
Which sub group of people is chronic pain more commen in?
Pain with prominent psychosocial dysfunction: Mood disorders. Affective disorders eg. Depression
Anxiety disorders. Disorders in which a certain situation or place triggers excessive fear and/or anxiety symptoms eg. generalized anxiety disorders.
What is somatization?
Somatization is the presentation of physical symptoms as a manifestation of psychological distress.
Symptoms are usually unexplained or
What the main neuralgias of the head and neck which cause pain?
Trigeminal neuralgia
Post herpetic neuralgia
What are the primary headache syndroms,vascular disorders and cerebrospinal fluid syndromes that cause pain?
Classic Migraine (Migraine with Aura)
Common Migraine (Migraine without
Aura)
Migraine Variants
Carotidynia
Mixed Headache
Cluster Headache
Paroxysmal Hemicrania
Temporal Arteritis (Giant Cell Arteritis)
What types of pain is associated with physchosocial cause?
Chronic pain
What is primary trigeminal neuralgia?
Sudden, severe, recurrent stabbing pains in the distribution of one or more branches of the Vth cranial nerve.
Always effects the primary afferant neurone
What type of pain is associated with trigeminal neuralgia?
Sharp, agonizing electric shock-like stabs or pain felt superficially in the skin or buccal mucosa.
usually there are triggers
What is the time pattern of trigeminal neuralgia?
Only for a couple of seconds but can happen every couple of mins for a period
What is the site of the pain caused in trigeminal neuralgia?
Unilateral (95% of the time)
Path of 5th cranial nerve
Often only affects one of the 3 divisions but occasional two.
The most common divisions that it affects are Maxillary, then mandibular then opthalmic
What are the differential diagnosis of trigeminal nerualgia?
Secondary trigeminal neuralgia- tumour,anuerysm
Multiple sclerosis
What is the treatment for trigeminal nerualgia?
Carbamazepine
Oxcarbazepine
Gabapentin
Lamotrigine
Phenytoin
Baclofen
What is the surgical treatment for trigmeminal neuralgia?
Glycerol nerve blocks
Partial sensory
rhizotomy
Radiofrequency ablation of the trigeminal ganglion
Microvascular decompression
What is glossopharyngeal neuralgia?
Paroxysmal bursts of sharp, lancinating pain felt in the distribution of CNIX, particularly the throat, tonsillar fossa and adjacent area of fauces.
Spontaneous or evoked, often by coughing or swallowing.
How can you treat glossopharyngeal neuralgia?
application of local anaesthetic to
What is this? what is the pain characterised by?
Post herpatic nerualgia.