Pain terminology

Question 1

IASP stands for?

Answer 1

international association for the study of pain

Question 2

IASP defines pain as?

Answer 2

an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage

Question 3

Is pain subjective?

Answer 3

YES

Question 4

How does each individual learn the meaning of pain?

Answer 4

through experiences related to injury in early life

Question 5

Pain has a ______ value for all organisms

Answer 5

survival

Question 6

Biologists recognize that those stimuli or illness that cause pain are likely to do what to tissue?

Answer 6

damage it

Question 7

Pain is an experience we associate with actual or potential what damage?

Answer 7

tissue damage

Question 8

Pain is unpleasant, so what experience is also associated with it?

Answer 8

emotional experience

Question 9

Is pain and nociception the same thing?

Answer 9

no, they aren’t the same entity

Question 10

Pain is

Answer 10

a conscious experience that results from brain activity in response to a noxious stimulus and engages the sensory, emotional and cognitive processes of the brain

Question 11

Nociception is

Answer 11

the process by which information about a noxious stimulus in conveyed to the brain
- it is the total sum of neural activity that occurs prior to cognitive processes that enable humans to identify a sensation as pain

Question 12

Is nociception sufficient enough for the experience of pain?

Answer 12

No

Question 13

Is pain associated with past experiences?

Answer 13

Yes

Question 14

IASP definition:

nociception

Answer 14

electrochemical activity of nerve receptors and fibers caused by stimulation that is potentially dangerous to the organism

Question 15

IASP definition:

nociceptor

Answer 15

a nerve receptor preferentially sensitive to nociceptive stimulation or to stimulation that becomes nociceptive if it persists

Question 16

IASP definition:

nociceptive

Answer 16

stimulation of sufficient intensity to activate nociceptors, and even produce a tissue lesion

Question 17

IASP definition:

algia

Answer 17

localized pain without presuming its cause (i.e. “lumbalgia”)

Question 18

Where is the term “algia” often used?

Answer 18

as an affix to indicate an increase or decrease in pain

-hyper/hypoalgesia

Question 19

IASP definition:

antalgic/ analgesic

Answer 19

pertaining to the reduction of pain

Question 20

IASP definition:

paresthesia

Answer 20

a spontaneous or provoked unusual sensation (not painful)

Question 21

Terms for decreased sensation

Answer 21

• Hypoesthesia
• Hypoalgesia
• Anesthesia
• Analgesia

Question 22

Hypoesthesia

Answer 22

a decrease in sensitivity to non-noxious stimulation

Question 23

Hypoalgesia

Answer 23

a decrease in pain in response to typically noxious stimulation, refers to an unusually low nociceptive threshold

Question 24

Allodynia

Answer 24

pain produced by typically non-noxious stimuli

Question 25

Is pain subjective to cultural differences?

Answer 25

yes

Question 26

Is pain universal and subjective?

Answer 26

yes

Question 27

T/F: Pain isn’t context-dependent.

Answer 27

False; it is
- examples:
young man undergoing painful tribal rituals vs.
pain associated with a clinical pathology

Question 28

Why is pain clinically significant?

Answer 28

• pain is part of almost every serious illness
• It is the 2nd most common reason for people to seek medical attention
• Pain is the #1 reason patients seek chiropractic care

Question 29

What does it mean that nociceptive pathways are highly conserved?

Answer 29

Nociceptive neural networks that are homologous across all mammalian species
- all organisms must be able to detect and appropriately react to noxious and potentially harmful stimuli

Question 30

Does nociception interact with one or multiple physiological and neural systems?

Answer 30

multiple

• Neural network
• Neurohumoral systems
• Neuroimmune systems