lecture 13 chronic pain Flashcards
Lorimer Mosely and colleagues found that when showing the colour RED and touch the skin with a cold metal object, a person would feel
The sensation that the object is hotter than it is
Chronic pain is pain that lasts for more than ____ months
3
Chronic pain is also associated with significant ________ distress and significant _______ disability
emotional distress, functional
Some examples of chronic pain syndromes are
Tension headaches, Back Pain, Whiplash, TMJ, CRPS
Treatments for chronic pain should be (three things)
Biological, Psychological, Social
Chronic secondary pain is a symptom of another _________ problem
another underlying health condition
This group of people has the highest prevalence rate of chronic pain in Canada
Indigenous peoples
This group of people report chronic illnesses at a rate two to three times higher than in the general population
veterans
People who scored high on the _Adverse childhood experiences ________ scale, can have an overly sensitized nervous system
ACE
Cannabis may be helpful for this type of pain
Neuropathic pain
When the brain becomes sensitized to the experience of chronic pain and the homunculus changes, it is called ________
central sensitization
These parts of the brain may be more activated in chronic pain
- Anterior cingulate cortex (ACC)
- Medial Prefrontal cortex (MCP)
- Insular cartex (IC)
What are the three parts of the Default Mode Network
Posterior cingulate cortex, medial prefrontal cortex, inferior partial lobe
What are three psychological treatments for pain
biopsychosocial model, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Graded Motor Imagery (GMI)
This type of treatment involves reprocessing a memory coupled with eye movements
Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR)
