Referred pain - week 21

Question 1

What is referred pain?

Answer 1

Pain that is felt somewhere else from the origin of the pain

Question 2

Why does referred pain happen?

Answer 2

Nociceptors from viscera and skin can converge on the same spinothalamic neurons and brain cannot interpret where the pain is originating

Question 3

Examples of referred pain?

Answer 3

Heart pain - down left arm
Gall bladder - right shoulder
Appendix - umbilicus