INTRO TO ASSESSMENT Flashcards
Identification/naming of disease or pathology a person has or is believed to have, is defined as?
Diagnosis
An evaluation of a client’s condition and physical basis for their symptoms, is defined as?
Assessment
Result of a medical condition, pathology or injury, is defined as?
Impairment
What does “SOAP” stand for?
Subjective
Objective
Assessment
Plan
Pain response from the release of chemical irritants causing swelling/edema
Inflammatory
Pain provoked from stretch or compression of painful structures containing nociceptors
Mechanical
Pain provoked by noxious stimulation from injury/disease
Acute Pain
Pain persists beyond the usual course of healing
Chronic Pain
A syndrome with high levels of pain, involving functional limitations and often depression
Chronic Pain Syndrome
Pain result from non-inflammatory dysfunction of PNS/CNS that does not involve nociceptor stimulation or trauma
Neurogenic Pain
Pain felt at another location of the body due to the same/adjacent neural segments supplying the referred site
Referred Pain
Spinal nerve or spinal nerve root pain
Radiculopathy
An area of skin supplied by one dorsal nerve root
Dermatomal Pain
A group of muscles supplied by one nerve root
Myotomal Pain
Bone or fascia innervated by a nerve root
Sclerotomal Pain
