Pain Models

Question 1

What is Pain?

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Pain

Answer 2

is an experience, no such thing as a pain signal, pain center, pain stimulus, pathway, receptor or ending

Question 3

Nociception vs Pain Experience

Answer 3

Nociception is potentially harmful
pain is the interpretation/experience of your combined NS interpretation of stimulus

Question 4

Pain simplified

Answer 4

an appraisal made y our protection system based on the neural representation of threat/ danger

Question 5

Protection/ Survival System Characteristics

Answer 5

adaptive/ dynamic/ plastic, responsive, predictive, proactive, reflective, learning

Question 6

Pain Theory #1 - Mature Organize Model of Pain

Answer 6

sensation of pain is seen as a perceptual component of the stress response whose prime adaptive purpose is to alter our behavior in order to enhance the process of recovery and chances of survival; we experience pain because It helped us to survive

Question 7

What if We Didn’t Feel Pain?