Pain Mechanism and Management

Question 1

What is the idea of Gate Theory?

Answer 1

neural ‘gate’ controls pain

Question 2

Where is neural gate located?

Answer 2

Spinal cord

Question 3

What happens in open gate?

Answer 3

high pain is felt

Question 4

What pain fibres are activated in open gate?

Answer 4

Ad

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Question 5

What else can cause open gate?

Answer 5

anxiety

depression

Question 6

What can close the gate?

Answer 6

Analgesic medication
Brain signals
Counter-stimulation

Question 7

What happens if gate is closed?

Answer 7

Noxious stimulation will not produce pain

Question 8

What types of counter-stimulation are there?

Answer 8

Acupuncture

Rubbing

Question 9

Define chronic pain

Answer 9

The persistence of the memory of a pain and/or the inability to extinguish the memory of pain evoked by an initial injury

Question 10

What are the three parts of the pain triumvirate?

Answer 10

Sensory discriminative areas
Affective/ motivational areas
Cognitive/ evolutional areas

Question 11

What are sensory discriminitive areas?

Answer 11

Localise the pain

Question 12

What are Affective/ motivational areas?

Answer 12

Unpleasant aspects, reward in escape

Question 13

What are cognitive/ evolutional areas?

Answer 13

Interpretation of pain and its meaning

Question 14

What components does acute pain have?

Answer 14

Dominant sensory components

Question 15

What is the secondary part component of acute pain?

Answer 15

affective

Question 16

What can motivational areas become

Answer 16

Reflexive

Question 17

What happens in chronic pain to the parts?

Answer 17

Affective and motivational become primary