Pain

Question 1

What is neuropathic pain

Answer 1

This is defined as pain causes by a lesion or disease affecting the somasensory system

Question 2

What is nociceptive pain

Answer 2

The perception of stimuli, usually painful, that causes or has the potential to cause tissue damage

Question 3

What is nociceptive pain

Answer 3

The perception of stimuli, usually painful, that causes or has the potential to cause tissue damage

Question 4

What is mixed pain?

Answer 4

Complex overlap of neuropathic pain and nociceptive pain types

Question 5

What is central sensitization?

Answer 5

Increased responsiveness of nociceptive pain neurons in the central nervous system to their normal subthreshold affluent input

Question 6

Adjuvant analgesia

Answer 6

Meds used for pain management for which the primary indication is not analgesia. Sometimes called co-analgesia

Question 7

Opioid induced hyperalgesia

Answer 7

Nociceptive sensitization resulting in hyperalgesia and/or allodynia associated with use of high doses of onions and or rapid escalation of onions. Pain is potentially by additional does of opioids