Pain - Midterms

Question 1

Unpleasant, complicated sensory and emotional experience initiated by a noxious stimulus associated with actual or potent tissue damage

Answer 1

Pain

Question 2

Physioanatomical process whereby an impulse is generated, following application of adequate stimulus

Whenever there is stimulus your body perceives that there is stimulus and is transmitted to the CNS

HOW EASILY PAIN IS FELT

Answer 2

Pain perception/sensitivity

Question 3

Pscyphysiological process that represent the individual’s overt manifestation to what just occured

Dependent on the subject and the stimulus; overall manifestation to stimulus; depend on the subject and the stimulus

Answer 3

Pain reaction

Question 4

Hypo reactive patient are?

Answer 4

High tolerance of pain

Question 5

A response when we are shock; change of posture

Answer 5

Startle response

Question 6

Withdraw of the body part that is in contact with painful stimulus

Answer 6

Flexion reflex and postural readjustment

Question 7

Enunciation/ you react to the painful stimulus

Answer 7

Vocalization

Question 8

Check if there is tissue damage, we also do first aid to soothe pain

Answer 8

Examination of the area

Question 9

Recalling of the past experience past painful experience that is similar to what happen

Answer 9

Evocation of past experience

Question 10

Foretelling of what will happen

Answer 10

Prediction of the consequence

Question 11

Lowest intensity of stimulus that produces the first perception of pain

Answer 11

Pain threshold

Question 12

When can we start feeling the pain in high pain threshold?

Answer 12

When there is a big amount of pain

Question 13

When can we feel low pain stimulus?

Answer 13

When there is a small amount of pain

Question 14

Most intense pain stimulus that can be endured

Answer 14

Pain tolerance

Question 15

High pain tolerance =?

Answer 15

Big amount of stimulus endured

Question 16

Low pain tolerance = ?

Answer 16

Small amount of pain endured

Question 17

Factors

Depends on what the reaction or emotion or perception of the patient; depend on the attitude to the procedure, operator and surrounding

Answer 17

Emotional states

Question 18

Factors

Well rested and had good night sleep patient will experience decreased pain reaction than patients who are not

Answer 18

Fatigue

Question 19

Factors

Older individuals tend to tolerate pain than younger individuals, the older you are the better tolerance of pain ( due to unpleasant past experience )

Answer 19

Age

Question 20

Factors

Latin american and southern europeans are more emotional than those who lived in warmer climates have lower pain tolerance than those who lived in colder areas

Answer 20

Racial and national characteristics

Question 21

Factors

Males are generally considered to have higher pain threshold than women

Answer 21

Sex

Question 22

Factors

Individuals who feel fearful and apprehensive have lower pain threshold, they magnify the pain even if there is no stimuli ( more of physiological than physical )

Answer 22

Fear and apprehension

Question 23

What is the most widely accepted theory of pain perception?

Answer 23

Gate control theory

Question 24

Pain felt at a site other than where the cause is situated

Answer 24

Referred pain

Question 25

Pain disorder in which unilateral pain is referred from the trigger points in myofascial structure to the muscle of the head and neck

Answer 25

Pain dysfunction syndrome

Question 26

paroxysms of excruciating pain that usually last for a few seconds or minutes with long periods of
remissions between attacks

Answer 26

Trigeminal neuralgia

Question 27

What triggered trigeminal neuralgia

Answer 27

Triggered by puff of air or wisp of cotton

Question 28

Cause of trigeminal neuralgia

Answer 28

Multiple sclerosis