Session 1 Flashcards
What is critical thinking
Setting out to actively understand what is really going on by using reasoning, evaluating evidence and thinking carefully about the process itself
What is critical reflection
Learning through and from experience towards gaining new insights. It involves being self aware and critically evaluating and questioning our own responses and assumptions
What is clinical reasoning
Thr thinking and decision making associated with clinical practice
What is clinical appraisal
The process of carefully and systematically examining research to judge its trustworthiness, and its value in a particular context
What is argument: an attempt to persuade someone through reasoning that they should agree with a particular conclusion
Logic: the study of the principles distinguishing the correct from the incorrect
What does ICF stand for
International classification of Functioning, Disability and Health
What is the ICF
A framework for describing functioning and disability in relation to a health framework describes the level of functioning of a person within their unique environment. It aims to shift away from negative connotations such as disability and places focus on function and the and positive abilities of individual at the patient level rather than the systems level
What factors does ICF look at
Health condition
Body structure and function
Activities
Participation
Environmental factors
Personal factors
What is pain
An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage
What is nociception
Pathological process in peripheral organs and tissues. Pain projection into damaged body part or referred pain. Often related to movement and usually a dull ache
What is neuropathic pain
Pain caused by lesion or disease of the somatosensory nervous system. Burning pain, shooting or sharp or like an electric shock
What is nociplastic pain
Pain that arises from altered nociception despite no clear evidence of actual or threatened tissue damage, causing the activation of peripheral nociceptors of the somatosensory system causing pain
What is central sensitisation
An increased responsiveness of nociceptors in the central nervous system to either normal or sub threshold afferent input resulting in hypersensitivity to stimuli
