Pain

Question 1

IASP definition of Pain

Answer 1

An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage.

Question 2

IASP definition of Nociception

Answer 2

The neural process of encoding noxious stimuli

Question 3

What it is it called when no cause can be found

Answer 3

Idiopathic or Dysfunctional pain syndrome

Question 4

Pain is a sensory and emotional experience? T/F

Answer 4

True

- self experience is one example

Question 5

what are some of the effects of pain on a person?

Answer 5

• Nuisance for a person
• Induce fear for some
• Affects all aspect of person’s life
• In some case severe suffering

Question 6

Severe pain affects a persons entire life in what ways?

Answer 6

Prevents/disturb..
-sleep 
- work 
Cause suicide 
-Allodynia

Question 7

How is pain measured?

Answer 7

The visual Analog Scale (VAS)

• Numeric rating scale
• Wong-Baker Faces

Question 8

What is CHRONIC Pain?

**On test

Answer 8

Disease of neuronal plasticity.

Question 9

What is the division between acute and chronic pain?

Answer 9

3 month to 6 month of persisting pain past normal time of healing.

Question 10

WHERE does nociception start? With nociceptors (IASP definition)

Answer 10

“a high-threshold sensory receptor of the peripheral somatosensory nervous system that is capable of transducing and encoding noxious stimuli”