pain science nxtgen Flashcards
How does the IASP define pain
an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or ….
….potential tissue damage, or desired in terms such as damage
The purpose of pain
- produce a with drawl effect (physical and mental)
- protection
- resolution
How does the the body evaluates pain
- sensory information
- prior experience
- stress regulation
- social cues
- future expectations
What is it important to understand to functional of pain related to potential tissue damage
- it can be the basis of unexplainable pain responses
- phantom limb
- unexplainable weakness
- CRPS
How can you use the examples of hunger, thirst and vision to help explain the potential aspect of pain
- hunger thirst and vision don’t always tell an accurate story
- you can be very hungry or thirst and have no need for food or water
- you vision can be fooled
How is habitation used in the treatment of chronic pain
the pain response can be modified by gradual introduction of the pain stimulus
What cognitive-evaluative variable impact pain processing in the neuromatrix model
- tonic: cultural learning, past experience, personal variability
- phasic: attention, expectation, anxiety, depression
what are the sensory discriminative inputs of sensory processing according to the neuromatrix
cutaneous, visceral and musculoskeletal inputs
What are the outputs of the pain response in the occurring to the neuromatrix model
- pain perception - sensory, affective and cognitive
- actions program - involuntary and voluntary
- stress regulation - cortisol, noradrenaline levels, endorphins levels, immune response
Smart 2012 identified three classification of pain response when looking at low back pain
- nociceptive
- peripheral neuropathic - disease or injury directly to the nerve
- central sensitization
what is causalgia
IASP 0 a syndrome of sustained burning pain, allodynia and hyperpathia after traumatic nerve lesion, often combined with vasomotor and sudomotor dysfunction and later trophic changes
