Pain Clinical Correlates Flashcards

1
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Pain

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Unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potentia l tissue damage

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2
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Acute pain

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Hurt=harm…avoidance decreases damage

Clear path

Fixed end point, immobilization, meds

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Chronic pain

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Hurt does not = harm and fear avoidance cycel

Multifactorial

No end point, immobilization owrse, meds beware

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4
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Tx of actue and chronic

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Acute - aggressive, coping skills secondary, intensive hospital, physio evolving

Chronic - step wise, coping skills important, outpatient only, physio established

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5
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Mech/noci pain

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Sharp, dull, ache

Tissue destruction, inflammationan, somatic pain, visceral pain

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6
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Neuropathyuic pain

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Bruning, stinging, pins and needles

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Allodynia, dysethenia, hyperalgesia

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Non painful sensation now painful
Abnormal sensation
Increases ensitivity to pain

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8
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Fibers types

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Mecahno - Abeta - fast

Pain - adelta-fast
C - slow

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9
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Pain pathway

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Can be excitatory or inhibitory

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10
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Anexiety and depression

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Lateral pathway - helps ID location, type intensity

Medial - helps drive attnetion and salience to the pain

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11
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Gate control theroy

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Can only handle so much stimulus so if you stimulate Abeta fibers, less capacity to send pain

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12
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TENS

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Transcutaneous electricla nerve stimuloation

Based on Gate theory

For Chronic MSK pain normally

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13
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Opioid indication

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Acute, traumatic, post op, cancer, palliative

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14
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What should especially not be prescribed with opioids

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Benzos

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15
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Opioid receptors

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Mu - most analgesia and bad things
Kappa - some analgesia, dysphoric effects

Delta - no analgesia

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16
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Fentanyl onset of action

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2-5 minutes

Better than morphine or hydromorphone

17
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Naloxone with SE

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Shorter half life than opioid

Confusion, dizzy, N/V
Arrythmias
Seizures
Negative pressure pulooanry edema

18
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Complex regional pain syndrome

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Hyperaesthesia or allodynia
Temperatuee or skin color asymmetry
Sweating, swelling or atrophy

19
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2 types of CRPS

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RSD - absence of definable injury…noxoius event iwht sponatneous pain and hyperalgesia

Casalgia - Similar course with burning and allodynia…need specific nerve injury

20
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Tx of CRPS

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All physical therapy related

21
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Sympathetic blockade success

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Horner syndrome
Temp increase
Increased blood flow

22
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Trigeminal nerualgia and causes

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Sudden stabbing pain or more constant buring pain that is severe to soft touch

Myelin destruction (BV or MS)
Compression from tumor or AVM
23
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Main drug for TN and stuff about it

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Carbamazepine (Na channel blocker)

Diagnositc for TN

Also for tonic-clonic seizures and bipolar disorder

Stabilizes inactivsated V gated channel

Side effects of SJS, toxic epidermal necrolysis, bone marrow suppression

24
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Diabetic peripheral neuroapthy

A

Diagnose with PE, NOT EMG

25
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Pregablin

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Alpha 2 delta subunit calcium channel blocker

More potent and quikcer onset than gabapentin

For diabetic and fibromyalgia

Dizziness, sleepiness, swelling

26
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Gabapentin

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Less potent and longer titration period than pregablin

27
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Fibromyalgia and tx

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Physical, mental, and social components
More in women
Widespread pain/abnormal pain processing

Duloxetine/milnacripran/pregablin

28
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Duloxetine

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SNRI serotinin-NE reuptake inhibitor
Favors serotnin over NE

Suicidal thoughts a risk when initating tx in adolescents

29
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TCAs

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Inhibit serotinin and NE as well as partial Na channel blockade

30
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Acute Mechanical LBP

A

Most gets better
Ice, rest, heat
NSAIDs,
PT

31
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Mechanical back pian tx.

A

Duloxetine or injections

32
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Thalamic pain syndrome

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Dejerine-Roussy syndrome

After thalamic stroke

Try everything

33
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Intrathecal drugs

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Morphine and baclofen (for spasticity)

Ziconotide (Ca hcnanel blocker)