Introduction to Pain Flashcards
What is the following a defintion of?
Unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that assoicated with, actual or potential tissue damage
Pain
What is the following a defintion of?
Pain that arises from actual or threatened damage to non-neural tissue and is due to the activation of nociceptors
Nociceptive pain
What is the following a defintion of?
increased pain from a stimulus that normally provokes pain
Hyperalgesia
What is the following a defintion of?
pain due to a stimulus that does not normally provoke pain
Allodynia
What is the following a defintion of?
increased responsiveness and reduced threshold of nociceptive neurons in the periphery to the stimulation of their receptive fields
Peripheral sensitzation
What is the following a defintion of?
increased responsiveness of nociceptive neurons in the central nervous system to their normal or subthreshold afferent input
Central sensitization
What is the following a defintion of?
Pain that arises from altern nociceptive despite no clear evidence or actual or threatened tissue damage causing the activation of peripheral nociceptors or evidence for disease lesion of the somatosensory system causing the pain
Nociplastic pain
What type of pain is superficial pain?
Sharp, pricking, or vibrating
What type of pain is musculoskeltal pain?
Dull, acheness, heaviness
What type of pain is visceral pain?
Achiness, referred pain
What fiber is this?
- myelinated
- responds to heat, cold and mechanical stimuli
- generates fast/first pain
- fast conduction
A(delta)
What fiber is this?
- unmyelinated
- slow conduction
- responds to heat, cold, mechanical, and chemical stimuli
C-Fiber
Is gate theory of pain control ascending or descending?
Ascending
Is enodgenous opioid system of pain control ascending or descending?
Descending
