Pain Flashcards
What are the two categories of pain?
Nociceptive pain and pathological pain.
What is nociceptive pain?
Pain triggered by a noxious stimuli, triggers withdrawal reflex. Important for survival.
What is pathological pain?
Pain caused by a neural lesion, abnormally processed due to neural damage, no longer important for survival.
What is allodynia?
Pain due to a stimulus which does normally not cause pain.
What is neuropathy?
Disturbance in function or pathological change in a nerve.
What is central pain?
Pain caused by a primary lesion or dysfunction in the nervous system.
What is dysesthesia?
Unpleasant abnormal sensation.
What is paresthesia?
Abnormal sensation, whether spontaneous or evokes.
What is hyperesthesia?
Increased sensitivity to stimulation.
What is hypoesthesia?
Decreased sensitivity to stimulation.
What is the gate control theory of pain?
Pain is modulated due to agtes within the spinal cord that can be open or closed; G-cell is a gate cell whereas T-cell is a transmission cell.
Who discovered the gate control theory of pain?
Wall and Melzack
What are the four segments of the spinal cord?
Cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral.
Where are primary sensory neurons located?
In the dorsal root ganglion.
What fibers are present in the DRG?
Large light and small dark.