Lecture 5 Psych Med (chronic pain) Flashcards
What is chronic pain? How does a doc define pain?
The relationship between pain and the state of tissues becomes…..?
What does chronic pain include?
It has characteristics of both ___ and ____ illness
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Chronic non-cancer pain
- Examples?
- Usually no obvious _____
- Is it useful?
- Complex so may be both what?
- Does it respond to usual drug treatment?
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Cancer pain:
- Examples?
- Features of _____ and _____ pain so it may be acute on chronic
- Often mixed ____ and ____ pain
- What happens if left untreated?
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Classification of pain:
- What are the three criteria to decide the type of pain?
- Treatment depends on what?
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What is used to assess chronic pain?
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What is the prevalence of chronic pain?
20 to 30%
Prevalence and treatments:
- Chronic pain of moderate to severe intensity occurs in 19% of adults in Europans
- What does this seriously affect? (2)
- Ver few managed by pain specialists and nearly half received what?
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What is the most expensive treatment cost in primary care?
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Transition to chronic pain:
What things make people more susceptible to getting chronic pain?
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What are red flags (to getting serious illness/chronic pain) in patients with back pain?
- Age over?
- Other body symptoms?
- Weight?
- History of?
- Bone what?
- Neurological what?
- What do these require?
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What were Kendall’s yellow flags and how do they differ from the red flags?
So in back pain you must ask?
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Why should we treat pain? (2)
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What does pain matter for the patient physically and psychologically?
Why does pain matter for family (2), and for society (2)?
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Non-pharmacological pain management (not relating to the branch of medicine concerned with the uses, effects, and modes of action of drugs) like therapy, relaxation, and ACT.
-Because chronic pain is a complex area a variety of professionals ar usually required to treat - what people?
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Therapies:
Give me 5 different therapies
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