IPS/MED 2.4 Flashcards
What is chronic pain according to Loeser and Melzack?
Chronic is less the duration of pain, rather the inability of the body to get back to homeostasis
What is the primary gain of pain according to Freud?
Primary Gain (Intrapersonal)
- Infantile unconscious conflict that is the main cause of disease
- E.g. alcoholic not aware of problems because he/she drinks it away
What is the secondary gain of pain according to Freud?
Secondary Gain (Interpersonal)
- Someone holds on to disease because of alleged or real benefits
- E.g. social benefits, insurance money etc.
What is the tertiary gain of pain according to Freud?
Tertiary Gain
- Social gains that a person gets because of someone else’s sickness
- E.g. Wife feeling good for caring for alcoholic husband
What are common problems that develop when pain behavior is supported?
- Dramatisation
- Disuse
- Drug abuse
- Dependency
- Disability
What is pain according to the neuromatrix?
Pain is not a passive registration of the brain, but more an active collection of subjective experiences
What is the first dimension of the neuromatrix regarding pain?
- Awareness of pain
- Brain stem, thalamus, somatosensory cortex
What is the second dimension of pain according to the neuromatrix?
- Integration and processing
- Insular cortex, anterior cingulate cortex, prefrontal areas
What is the third dimension of pain regarding the neuromatrix?
- Emotional component
- Connection with limbic system → amygdala
Persists after injury has healed and results from significant functional and structural changes in nervous system
What is meant here?
Chronic pain
What type of memory is chronic pain?
Nociceptive memory
What functions in chronic pain do the primary and secondary cortices have?
→ Lateral pain pathway
→ Responsible for sensory dimension of pain
What function does the anterior cingulate cortex have in pain?
→ Medial pain pathway
→ Important for pain affection
- Accept that you have persistent pain…. And then begin to move on
- Get involved - building a support team
- Pacing
- Learn to prioritise and plan out your days
- Setting Goals/Action Plans
- Being patient with yourself
- Learn relaxation skills
- Stretching & Exercise
- Keep a diary and track your progress
- Have a set-back plan
- Team Work
- Keeping it up…putting into daily practice the tools from 1-11
What is described here?q
The pain toolkit
What is peripheral sensitization?
- Increased response and lowered threshold level of nociceptive neurons in periphery
→ To stimuli in their receptive field
What is central sensitisation?
Increased response of nociceptive neurons in CNS to normal afferent input or even by afferent input
→ Below threshold level
What are components of successful chronic pain education and therapy?
- Pain education
- Cognitive behavioral therapy (graded exposure and graded activities)
- Therapy based on acceptance
What are the 3 phases of graded exposure?
- Cognitive behavioral phase
- Analyzing the pain
- Is there catastrophizing or kinesiophobia?
- Use TSK or PHODA - Education phase
- Use fear avoidance model to explain pain behavior
- Motivate patient to participate in treatment that might provoke fear - Exposure treatment phase
- Gradual exposure to activities that provoke fear and pain
- Gradual increase of activity level
What is the overall goal in graded activity?
Increase activity level despite pain!!
Time contingent instead of pain contingent
Extinction of pain behaviour → Positive reinforcement of healthy behavior
What are bottlenecks of care in the transition from child to adult?
Psychosocial factors
Taking control and responsibility for oneself
Gaps of knowledge
What is Virchow‘s Triade?
Venous stasis
Hyper co-agulability
Blood vessel damage
What are cardiovascular effects of immobility?
Virchow‘s Triade
Initially increased venous return, intracranial pressure, HR and SV
Later orthostatic hypertension and stasis
What is the ABCDE screening for skin cancer?
Asymmetry
Border
Colour
Diameter
Evolving
What are the 4 steps of breast cancer treatment ?
- Shrink the tumour with chemotherapy
- Remove the solid tumour with surgery
- Radiation therapy after surgery
- Chemotherapy as precaution after surgery in case a few cancer cells have broken away to lymph node or adjacent tissue
What are the 5 standard treatment options for cancer?
Local:
1. Surgery
2. Radiation
Systemic:
3. Hormone therapy
4. Chemotherapy
5. Targeted therapy
How does hormone therapy work?
Exogenous administration of hormones leads to manipulation of endocrine system
What is targeted therapy in cancer?
- Type of chemotherapy
- Target cancer cell‘s inner mechanisms and doesn’t harm a lot of healthy cells
- E.g. blocking chemical signaling, changing proteins, stopping vascularisation
What is curative or primary surgery in cancer treatment?
To remove cancer/tumour
What is debulking surgery in cancer?
Removal of cancer but not entirely because of damage to or delicate surrounding tissue
What is supportive surgery in cancer treatment?
Port-a-Cath implantation for infusions
What is a single gene trait?
Change in 1 gene with reproductive cells
What is a chromosomal defect?
DNA fragments are displaced or lost
Inherited tendency to develop genetic disorders following exposure to environmental factors is called?
Multifactorial
How many single gene disorders are known?
6000
If both parents carry an autosomal recessive gene and have 4 kids how would they be affected by it?
1 healthy child, 2 carrier children and 1 sick child
If one parent is sick an autosomal dominant gene and the other one is healthy (no dominant or recessive gene) how would their 4 kids be affected?
2 kids affected, 2 kids healthy
What type of autosomal disease is Huntington’s disease?
Autosomal recessive
Which disease is an example of x-bound inheritance?
Duchenne‘s muscular dystrophy