Pain

Question 0

Types of pain?

Answer 0

Nociceptive- good pain. Protective and adaptive
Inflammatory- reduces free damage due to increase sensitivity
Pathological- abnormal function of NS dysfunctional

Question 1

What is pain?

Answer 1

An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual / potential tissue damage
Subjective
Influenced by attention, suggestion, emotional state

Question 2

Simple explanation of pain pathway

Answer 2

Travels along c fibre and a fibre to spinal cord

Then to brain

Question 3

What are the primary affecting neurotransmitters ?

Answer 3

EAA’s eg. Glutamate

Peptides

Question 4

What does the gate control theory state?

Answer 4

Devised by Patrick wall and Ronald melzack
Pain is a function of the balance between the information travelling into spinal cord from large and small nerve fibres.
If relative amount of activity is greater in large nerve fibres there will be little / no pain