Pain/sensation

Question 1

Book definition of pain?

Answer 1

The perception or identification

of stimuli as painful.

Question 2

Types of Pain? (4)

Answer 2

mechanical, thermal, or chemical. What

about emotional?

Question 3

Pain is?

Answer 3

Pain is a interpretation of impulses/stimuli, the 5th vital sign.

Question 4

Factors of acute pain ? (8)

Answer 4

◼ Pain is a symptom
◼ Signs of inflammation
◼ Sudden onset
◼ Well defined
◼ Responds well to Tx
◼ <6 months
◼ Affects self
◼ Anxious

Question 5

Factors of chronic pain?(8)

Answer 5

◼ Pain has become a disease
◼ Sings of inflammation?
◼ >6 months
◼ Not well defined
◼ Less responsive to Tx
◼ Sudden or gradual onset
◼ More likely to have depression 
or psychological affects
◼ Affects others

Question 6

Sub acute pain is?

Answer 6

Sub Acute:
Recurrence of a pain longer than
expected

Question 7

Ways to recognize pain?(7)

Answer 7

▪ Postural asymmetry
▪ Antalgic movements 
▪ Facial expression 
▪ Pain verbalization
▪ Seeking medical assistance
▪ Signs of inflammation
▪ Outcome tools

Question 8

Ways used to measure pain?(4)

Answer 8

No accurate way to measure it, purely subjective
◼ Visual Analog Scale
▪ 10 cm line
▪ Cues
▪ Pictures ☺, ☹
▪ Doesn’t correlate to % of pain, or change of pain
◼ Body Diagrams
▪ Helps to describe quality and location of pain
▪ Can get messy
▪ Can show dermitomal or nerve or nondermitomal patterns
◼ Quality of Life Measures
◼ Pain questionnaire

Question 9

Subjective pain questions?(6)

Answer 9

When did the pain start?
◼ How did it start?
◼ Over the past 6 months has it gotten better, worse or the stayed the same?
◼ What makes it better or worse?
◼ Pain medications?
▪ When ?
▪ How often?
▪ How much?
◼ What can’t you do because of the pain?
▪ Include how long you can do something?
◼ Do you think you will get better?
◼ How are you sleeping?

Question 10

Study dermatomes and peripheral nerve patterns figs 5.1 and 5.2

Answer 10

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