Lecture 1: intro to pain Flashcards
true or false: pain is a perception
true
true or false: pain is not an emotion
false: it is
true or false: pain is a strong motivator of behavior
true
does pain have effects on psychological health and well being
true
true or false: pain is more psychological than other sensations ort disease states
true
true or false:L the linkl between injury and pain is strong
falser: it is weak
true or false: pain can be ,agnified by what we think
true
true or falseL psychiological modulation has a huge effect
true
true or false: soldiers are more tolerant to pain
technically from the study yes, but there were other factors that were not evaluated
what is the #1 reason to visit healthcare
pain
what is the #1 concern of patients with chronic disease
pain
can pain kill us:
-does nit directly
-people with chronic pain have shorter life spans
-morbidity: suffering not dying
pain is a more …. …. of mankind than …. itself
pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than death itself
top 10 reasons to visit a doc
- Cough
- Back pain
- Abdominal pain
- Sore throat
- Dermatitis (itch)
- Fever
- Headache
- Leg pain
- Respiratory
10.Fatigue
true or false: pain is ubiquitous
true
prevalence of chronic pain
-1/20 would have chronic pain rn
-50% of us will experience chronic pain in our lifetime
what is the epidemiologist bathtib?
-flow of the water is the incidence: so how much new cases of smth over a period of time and the flow says how fucked you are
-the prevalence is the tub so it is how many people have smth
-the vapor released is the recovery
-the water that gets out is the deaths
backpain and the NHS in 1 year
-16 500 000 HAVE BACK PAIN
-3000 000-7 000 000 ARE CONSULTING A DOCTOR
-1 600 000 have a prescription for their backpain or they are being treated
-100 000 are at an hospital; because of that
-24 00 get surgery
what is the prevalence of pain in kids
between 3%-10% but we are still unsure because different studies study different stuff
true or false there is mor arthritis than high blood pressure
wrong there is more high blood pressure
true or false: women have a higher prevalence of pain than men
true: more back pain, arthritis, migrane, crohns disease
men have more diabetes
true or false: for men the longer you live the more likely you are to get pain
false after 70-74 it kinda decreases because probs men that were likely to get pain are dead
-it is true for women tho they do be suffering
does the level of education that you have affect the amount of pain that you have
yup
-the more educated the less pain that you have
-probs due to less physical jobs for academics, a good socioeconomic status means less stress and less pain
-better insurance too means better treatments
prevalence of pain by body part
-Lower bacl: 18%
-knee: 16%
-head: 15%
-leg 14%
-shoulder 9%
-neck and hip 8%
-hand 6%
-upper back: 5%
why is there the most pain in the lower back?
-works the most so we compensate with it a lot
-the gravity puts lots of pressure on the lower vertebrae
what are the 4 categories of burden of pain
-functional activity
sleep disturbance
work, household chores
leisure activities
energy
-social consequences
marital and family relations
intimacy
social isolation
-socio-economic consequences
healthcare cost
disability
lost productivity
-emotional functioning
irritable
angry
anxious
depressed
what is the most debilitating pain for complex activity like showering
lower back and knee pain
global burden of disease: true or false: cancer is the #1
false it is pain ex:
back pain
oth MSK
neck pain
headache
what does comorbidity means
if you have one condition, how likelyu you are of getting another
patients with peripheral neuropathic pain experience which symptoms in levels from the most popular to least
-difficulty sleeping
-lack of energy
-drowsiness
-concentration difficulties
-depression
-anxiety
poor appetite
patients with peripheral neuropathic pain experience which symptoms in levels from the most popular to least
-difficulty sleeping
-lack of energy
-drowsiness
-concentration difficulties
-depression
-anxiety
poor appetitetrue or
true or false: people with chronic pain are more likely to be at suicide risk
true
true or false: you will die faster if you have chronic pain
true
true or false: the cost of pain outweighs of cancer and the us defense
true
pain is abrahamic religions
-pain as a punishment for sin
ex: eve and the garden of eden, now it is painful to give birth
-pain as redemption like jesus on the cross
-pain as personal atonement
where does the word pain come from
-greel: peona which is like a punishment
-proto indo eurtopean: sadness/douleur
pain in philosophy
- Aristotle (384-322 BCE): pain is an emotion,
in the heart - Galen (130-201): pain is a sensation,
in the brain - Avicenna (980-1037): pain is an independent
sensation from touch/temperature - Descartes (1596-1650): there exists a
“pain pathway” from the body to the brain
theodicy
-the vindication of divine goodness and providence in view of the existence of evil
basically is god is supposed to be good. why is there pain?
what is utilitarism and who proposed it
you should decide on the ethical permissiveness based on the pain and the pleasure that smth brings
-if there is more pleasure than pain that is brought then it is fine
-Jeremy Bentham
the principle of utility
-recognizes the fundamental role of pain and pleasure in human life’
-approves or disapproves of an action on the basis that the amount of pain or pleasure brought about (consequences)
-equated the good with the pleasurable and the evil with pain
-asserts that pleasure and pain are capable of quantification and hence of measure
duolism
mind and bodyu are seperate
monis
mind is an output of the body aka the brain
what was an evidence of duolism
phantom pain
pain and the problem of other minds
basically i might exist, you might exist and there is no way that you can prove to me that you actually exist
-same thing with pain, i know someone has pain but I could never feel it from another person and to know how bad it is
pain and animal rights: animal liberation and who proposed it
the funamental interest that entitle a being to equal consideration is the capacity for suffering and or enjoyment or happiness
Peter Singer