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1
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What is the medical term for touch?

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Somatic senses

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2
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What is proprioception?

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recognition of body position

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3
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What is nociception?

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Pain

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4
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What is the technical term for feeling pain?

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Nociception

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5
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What is the term used for the recognition of body position?

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Proprioception

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What is the somatosensory system meaning?

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Touch

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7
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Where would you find sensory receptors?

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Epithelia, skeletal muscles, bones, joints, internal organs and the cardiovascular system

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What are the three types of receptors?

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Thermoreceptors, mechanoreceptors and chemorecpetors

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9
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What ado chemoreceptors do?

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Change chemical signals into action potential

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10
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Where is the primary somatosensory cortex?

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The parietal lobe of the cerebral cortex

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11
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What are the different types of somatosenses?

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Cutaneous, kinesthesia and visceral

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12
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How many neurons are involved in somatosensory signals?

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at least 3

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13
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Where is the primary neuron located?

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dorsal root ganglion of the spinal nerve

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14
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Where would you find the secondary neuron?

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In the spine or brain stem

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15
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Where does the secondary neuron terminate?

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The ventro-posterior nucleus of the thalamus

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16
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Where does the tertiary neuron finish?

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The postcentral gyrus of the cerebral cortex

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17
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The dorsal column medial lemniscal pathway transmitts what sort of information?

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Fine touch, vibration and concious proprioceptive information

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What pathway does fine touch, vibration and concious proprioceptive information travel through?

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The dorsal column medial lemniscal pathway

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19
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The ventral spinothalamic pathway transmits what sort of information?

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Pain, temperature, itch and crude touch

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20
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What pathway does pain, temperature, itch and crude touch travel through?

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The ventral spinothalamic pathway

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The dorsal spinocerebellar pathway transmits what sort of information?

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Proprioceptive information

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The ventral spinocerebellar pathway transmits what sort of information?

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Proprioceptive information

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23
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What pathway does proprioceptive information travel through?

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The dorsal and ventral spinocerebellar tracts

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24
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What is the name for a somatosensory map?

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Homunculus

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25
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What is pain?

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

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26
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What is nociceptive pain?

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Stimulation of peripheral nerve fibers that respond only to stimuli approaching or exceeding harmful intensity

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27
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What do we call an unpleasant sesory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage?

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Pain

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28
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What is caused by the stimulation of peripheral nerve fibers that respond only to stimuli approaching or exceeding harmful intensity?

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Nocicptive pain

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29
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What causes neuropathic pain?

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Damage or disease affecting any part of the nervous system involved in bodily feeling

30
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What does damage or disease affecting any part of the nervous system involved in bodily feeling cause?

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Neuropathic pain

31
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What would peripheral neuropathic pain be described as?

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Burning, tingling, electrical, stabbing or pins and needles

32
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What could feeling burning, tingling, electrical, stabbing or pins and needles be?

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Peripheral neuropathic pain

33
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What is acute pain?

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Normal pain

34
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What do we call normal pain?

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Acute pain

35
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What is chronic pain?

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Pain illness felt day after day

36
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What do we call pain illness that is felt day after day?

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Chronic pain

37
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What is phantom pain?

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A pain from a limb or organ which a person no longer receives physical signals

38
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What do we call pain from a limb or organ from which a person no longer receives physical signals?

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Phantom pain

39
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What causes cutaneous pain?

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Injury to the skin or superficial tissues

40
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Injury to the skin or superficial tissues will cause what?

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Cutaneous pain

41
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Where does somatic pain originate from?

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Ligaments, tendons, bones, blood vessles, fasciae and muscles

42
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Pain from the ligaments, tendons, bones, blood vessels, fasciae and muscles is called what?

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Somatic pain

43
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Wher does visceral pain originate?

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The body’s viscera or organs

44
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Pain originating from the body’s organs is called what?

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Visceral pain

45
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What is a pain scale useful for therapists?

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Helps to monitor symptoms and outcomes

46
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What are nociceptors?

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Free nerve endings with cell bodys outside of the spinal column in the dorsal root ganglion

47
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How many types of nociceptors are there?

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3

48
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What are the different types of nociceptors?

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Mechanical, chemical and thermal

49
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What do you call nociceptors that have a response that comes only after the onset of innflammation to the surrounding tissue

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Silent or sleeping nociceptors

50
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What are the two types of axons involoved in nociception?

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Alpha and C fibre axons

51
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Fast pain travel down whach tract?

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Neospinothalamic tract

52
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Slow pain travels down which tract?

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Paleospinothalamic tract

53
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How fast do alpha axons transmit signals?

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6-30m/s

54
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How fast do C fibre axons transmit signals?

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around 2 m/s

55
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How quickly is fast pain felt?

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within a tenth of a second

56
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How is fast pain felt?

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Sharp, acute prickling pain

57
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How is slow pain felt?

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aching, throbbing burning pain

58
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What is a non nociception stimuli often used to gate pain?

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Vibration

59
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What is haptic communication?

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The means by which people and other animals communicate with touching

60
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Who came up with the five haptic categories and when?

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Heslin in 1974

61
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What are the five haptic categories?

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Functional/professional, social/polite, friendship/warmth, love/intimacy, sexual/arousal

62
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Who came up with the 18 different meanings of touch and when?

A

Jones and Yarbrough 1985

63
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Who camee up with the five categories of power bases?

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French and raven

64
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Greeting and departure are both what sort of touches?

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Ritualistic

65
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Attention getting and compliance are both what sorts of touches?

A

Control

66
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Instrumental ancillary and reference to appearance are both what sort of touches?

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Task-related

67
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What are the 5 categories of power bases?

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Legitimate power, referent power, expert power, rewar power and coercive power

68
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What sort of power does someone have if they can persuade and influence others simply by being likeable?

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Referent power

69
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What do you call a culture that communicates mainly through words?

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Low context culture

70
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What are three middle ground touching countries?

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France India and Germany

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