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imagery and pain management - week nine Flashcards

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interventions to reduce injury vulnerability

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Davis (1991) found a 52%
reduction in injuries for swimmers
and a 33% reduction in injuries for
football players during the athletic
season in which they practiced
relaxation and imagery skills
Most impressive because the two
intervention programs targeted
athletes in general rather than
athletes at risk

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biofeedback

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a self-regulation technique in which auditory ‘ or
visual feedback provides information about
biological functions not usually available to a
person’s awareness (e.g., Schwartz, 1987)
* Commonly used measures include:
* Muscular activity, skin response, peripheral
temperature, respiration rate, heart rate
- physiology and eg (monitor) put it together, self-regulation technique and teach them how to use strategies to manage those type of feelings e.g., muscular tension biggest modality you can use various strategies to help it not interfere.

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7 activity recall

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2 mins rest
* 2 mins stress (stroop test)
* 2 mins rest
* 2 mins stress (math test)
* 2 mins rest
* 2 mins stress (stressful sport even recall)
* 2 mins rest

  • how they respond when they’re in rest and how they respond when they’re stressed and we can measure the physiological measures like muscular activity, skin response, peripheral temp, respiration rate, heart rate
  • Stressful sport moment they recall their selves
  • 99% math test is the most stressful, but the data doesn’t show that the math test is the most stressful, it’s the third ‘test’ recalling a stressful sport moment.
  • Athlete A at rest is strongly impacted by muscular tension
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imagery and PTSD

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  • PTSD = post traumatic stress disorder which involves intrusive recollections of traumatic events which equals incomplete psychological recovery
  • Treating PTSD in veterans
    1. Less frequent nightmares because the sleep state it’s in the form of dreams and nightmares
    2. Increased positive mood state
    3. Improved sense of self
    4. Better cognitive and emotional function
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what are the six categories of pain management (hospital settings)

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  1. external focus of attention
  2. pleasant imaginings
  3. neutral imaginings
  4. rhythmic cognitive activity
  5. pain acknowledge
  6. dramatized coping
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external focus of attention

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  • General: listening to music, focusing on horizon
  • Sport: Attending to environment cues that are
    related to sport performance
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pleasant imaginings

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  • General: Imaging relaxing on the beach
  • Sport: Imaging the feeling of having performed a task well
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neutral imaginings

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  • General: Thinking of a routine activity like
    walking up the steps
  • Sport: Imagining calmly dressing before or after a competition
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rhythmic cognitive activity

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  • General: Counting backward from 100
  • Sport: Coordinating breathing with activity
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pain acknowledge

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  • General: Imagining pain being moved away from an area of the body through circulation of the blood
  • Sport: Imaging lactic acid build-up as inducing
    numbness without pain
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dramatized coping

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  • General: Seeing oneself in pursuit of a heroic task in which tolerance of pain is associated with personal triumph
  • Sport: Imagining pain experience during rehabilitation as occurring in conjunction with outstanding athletic achievement
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association and dissociation

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Pain management techniques have been categorized as either (e.g., Morgan & Pollock, 1977)
- associative (focused on pain) or
- dissociative (focused away from pain)

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Dissociative quality

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  • External focus of attention (nature..)
  • Neutral imaginings
  • Rhythmic cognitive activity or imagining
  • Pleasant imaginings
  • Most commonly used because of their diversity and easily learned
  • Pleasant imaging is most efficacious
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Associative quality

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  • Pain acknowledgement
  • Dramatized coping
  • Associative are most effective when part of a complex pain management strategy that integrates dissociate techniques as well.
  • Therapists instructs the patient to repeatedly shift from an associative focus to a restful dissociative focus.
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male vs females –> differences in coping (associative vs dissociative)

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  • High level performers
  • Women tend to be dissociative (take the focus away from that pain)
  • Men are more associate (focus on the pain or the area that is sore)
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Imagery as a Coping Strategy in Patients

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  • Pre-operative psychological preparation for surgery
  • Designed to reduce anxiety prior to surgery
  • Increases patients’ feelings of being able to cope with
    surgical stress
  • Other reported benefits include reduced medication and shorter post-operative stay
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imagery as a coping strategy for patients pt.2

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imagery influenced patients’ subjective and hormonal
responses to abdominal surgery
* Imagery patients:
– Less post-operative pain
– Better coping
– Requested less analgesia
– Lower levels of cortisol
imagery as a way to control anxiety pre-operation has shown that insurance companies were saving money since there is less money post operation and shorter hospital stays.

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guided imagery during labour and delivery

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  • Guided imagery is a relaxation technique that focuses on creating harmony between your mind and your body in order to ease stress and enhance well-being. Many women use guided imagery during childbirth to help them feel relaxed, comfortable, and able to handle labor and delivery
  • There are many benefits of guided imagery for example it can:
  1. Reduce stress, anxiety, and tension
  2. Decrease pain
  3. Lower blood pressure
  4. Improve oxygenation throughout your body (and your baby’s body)
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Imagery in Hypnobirthing

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  • Assisting in natural birth
  • Reduction in pain
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hypnobirthing myths

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  • Has nothing to do with a pocket watch or a shady stage show
  • Hynopsis is a form of mind control or brainwashing
  • Hypnosis puts you in a deep sleep
  • A person whos been hypnotized has no free will
  • You cant perform usual tasks and functions if you’re hypnotized
  • You’re unaware of whats going on around you when you’re hypnotized
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Imagery as a way to control anxiety pre- operation

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  • Pre-operative psychological preparation for surgery
  • Designed to reduce anxiety prior to surgery
  • Increases patients’ feelings of being able to cope with surgical stress
  • Other reported benefits include reduced medication and shorter post-operative stay
  • Qualitative and quantitative are important

imagery as a way to control anxiety pre-operation has shown that insurance companies were saving money since there is less money post operation and shorter hospital stays.

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True or false: imagery can be used as way not only to reduce pain but also to reduce injury susceptibility

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TRUE

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How is imagery associated with biofeedback technique?

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Which pain coping technique is considered the most efficacious?

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pleasant imaginings

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Types of nonpharmacological treatments to reduce pain?

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  • Massage
  • Cold baths
  • Breathing
  • Acupuncture
  • Heat and cold packs
  • Relaxation
  • Distraction (dissociation)
  • Hypnosis
  • Imagery
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imagery for children facing surgery

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  • getting a child ready for surgery
    Visualization can help kids especially those with higher anxiety or autism, feel less anxious about surgery
  • Randomly assigned 75 children into two groups
    – Gr. 1: Guided imagery (before and after surgery)
    – Gr, 2: No imagery
  • Results:
    – Guided imagery reported significantly less pain and
    anxiety after the procedure than control
    – On a pain scale of 0-100, the average score of the control group after surgery was 42, while the group using guided imagery had an average score of 30.
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Did they follow the audio-recordings exactly? Or, did they come up with their own scenarios?
When did the children turn to the recordings, and why?

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Results:
– Some travelled to places not mentioned in the audio recording (community park) such as lakes, swimming pools, amusement parks, etc.
– Used audio before to reduce anxiety and after surgery to reduce pain

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Don’t use imagery if..

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Don’t use imagery if..
* The patient is:
* Actively psychotic
* Not able to think abstractly
* Not able to distinguish fantasy from reality
* Having hallucinations or delusions
* Have moderate to advanced dementia or. delirium
* Unable to communicate

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what is a form of association?

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dramatized coping

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what is a form of dissociation?

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pleasant imagining

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True or false –> athletes perceive the math event as most stressful in biofeedback

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TRUE

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