Exam 2 Pain Chapter

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Intense but time limited pain that is generally the result of tissue damage or disease

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Acute pain

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Examples of acute pain

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Broken bone, cut, bruise, or labor of child birth

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Often begins as acute pain but does not go away after a minimum of 6 months

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A disorder characterized by widespread musculoskeletal chronic pain accompanied by fatigue, sleep, memory, and mood issues

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Fibromyalgia

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A headache that can cause acute throbbing pain or pulsing sensation

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Migraine

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Benign but persistent pain that is hard to manage

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Intractable benign pain

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Chronic back pain is an example of

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Intractable benign pain

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Pain that continues for 12 weeks or longer

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Chronic back pain

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Pain that originates from a malignant condition ( continues and worsens over time )

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Progressive pain

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Example of progressive pain

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Osteoarthritis

Question 12

Feeling pain can be ____ to long term health and survival

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Beneficial

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Specific sensory receptors for different types of sensations such as pain, warmth, tough, and pressure

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Specific theory

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Describes pain as resulting from the type of stimulation received by the nerve endings and theorizes the key determination of pain is the intensity of the stimulation

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Pattern their

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

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Pain

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At the most basic level, pain can be referred to as _____

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Nociception

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Involves the activiatiin of specialized nerve fibers and receptors

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Nociception

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When our bodies detect a noxious stimulus, the ________ jumps into action and he heart beats faster, blood pressure arises

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Automatic nervous system

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Many cultural factors influence the perception and experience of pain but the two that stand out are

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Sex and ethnicity

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Boys are socialized to not _____ themselves when experiencing pain and girls are socialized to express pain

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Express

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Purely psychological pain without a physiological basis

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psychogenic

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Pure nociception without significant psychological pain

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Neuropathic

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Physiological pain without specific tissue damage

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Somatic

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4 distinct physiological processes to understand pain

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Transduction, transmission, modulation, and perception

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Sensory detectors in pain

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Transduction

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Energy is transmitted to CNS

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Transmission

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Neural activity in brain

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Modulation

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End result of process of pain

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Perception

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Hospitals use a continuous measure of pain intensity like a

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Numeric rating scale, verbal rating scale, and visual analog scale

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Issue with the scale is that it is fully

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Subjective

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One benefit of the scale is its usefulness in the

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ER

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Earliest and most frequent questionnaires and draws on the fact that we use words to describe pain

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McGill Pain questionnaire

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Provided one of the first theories of how we experience pain

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Descartes

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First models to allow for the role of emotions and perceptions

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Pain prone personality

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People get conditioned to experience pain on the basis of learned expectations

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Cognitive behavioral model

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Most effective and most studied biopsychosocial theory

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Gate control theory of pain