Pain

Question 0

Pain is subjective

Answer 0

Pain is whatever the person experiencing it says it is and exists whenever they say if does

Question 1

Pain

Answer 1

Unpleasant feeling to the body (affects physical and emotional parts of the body)

Question 2

Pain threshold

Answer 2

Amount of stimulation someone can handle before saying “I hurt” or “I have pain”

Question 3

Quality

Answer 3

What does the pain feel like? Let them offer the info.

Question 4

Pain intensity scale

Answer 4

0: no pain
1-3: mild pain
4-6: moderate pain
7-10: severe pain

Question 5

Provoked it?

Answer 5

What caused the pain? What makes it better?

Question 6

Region/radiation

Answer 6

Where is the pain? Is it always in that one spot or does it spread?

Question 7

Severity?

Answer 7

What is the intensity of pain on a pain scale?

Question 8

Timing?

Answer 8

When did it start? How often does it last??does it come and go or is it continuos

Question 9

Pain tolerance

Answer 9

Intensity of pain one will endure

Question 10

Acute pain

Answer 10

Cause is known and treatable. Temporary, rapid onset. And has a short duration, pain is specific and localized

Question 11

Chronic pain

Answer 11

Most chronic pain is neuropathic, results from nerve damage.. Causes may be unknown. Treatment may not be helpful. Develops slowly. Pain is nonspecific and generalized.

Question 12

Somatogenic

Answer 12

Physical in origin

Question 13

Pshchogenic

Answer 13

Emotional origin

Question 14

Intractable

Answer 14

Constant, resistant to treatment

Question 15

Intermittent

Answer 15

Comes and goes

Question 16

Referred

Answer 16

Visceral origin. Occurs away from site of origin or problem