Types of Pain

Question 1

What is neuropathic pain

Answer 1

nerve pain

Question 2

What are conditions that can lead to pain by damage to peripheral nerves causing neuropathic pain

Answer 2

Diabetes mellitus, long term alcohol use, hypothyroidism, renal insufficiency, drug treatment with neurotoxic agents

Question 3

What is a syndrome that can result from damage from peripheral nerves

Answer 3

Complex regional pain syndrome

Question 4

Nerve damage associated with amputation is believed to be a cause of what

Answer 4

Phantom limb

Question 5

What are treatment methods for neuropathic pain

Answer 5

palliation of pain, resecting tumor causing nerve compression

Question 6

What does neuropathic pain feel like

Answer 6

allodynia, stabbing, jabbing, burning or shooting

Question 7

What is neuralgia

Answer 7

Spinal or cranial nerve pain

Question 8

What is neuralgia characterized as

Answer 8

severe, brief, repetitive attacks of lightning like or throbbing pain

Question 9

What is neuralgia usually precipitated by?

Answer 9

The stimulation of the cutaneous region supplied by that nerve

Question 10

What are the mani’s of trigeminal neuralgia

Answer 10

facial tics/ spasms, sudden or recurrent stabbing pain usu in trigeminal cranial nerve (maxillary/ mandibular)

Question 11

What is the pain like for trigeminal neuralgia

Answer 11

intermittent, excruciating

Question 12

What is the pathophysiology of trigeminal neuralgia

Answer 12

neuromuscular compression, can be secondary to a tumor formation, or MS

Question 13

What types of pain do people with postherpetic neuralgia suffer from

Answer 13

constant pain, intermittent pain, and stimulus- evoked pain (allodynia)

Question 14

What disorder is postherpetic neuralgia associated with

Answer 14

Herpes zoster because the virus travels from the affected sensory ganglia and peripheral nerve to skin (dermatome)

Question 15

What is the treatment for postherpetic neuralgia

Answer 15

topical anesthetic agent, lidocaine-prilocaine cream or 5% lidocaine gel

Question 16

What is complex regional pain syndrome

Answer 16

rare disorder of the extremities characterized by autonomic and vasomotor instability

Question 17

How to reduce complex regional pain syndrome

Answer 17

Early mobilization after injury/ surgery

Question 18

What is phantom limb

Answer 18

Type of neurologic pain following a limb amputtion

Question 19

What does the pain feel like in phantom limb

Answer 19

starts off tingling, heat and cold, heaviness followed by burning, cramping, shooting pain

Question 20

What notable feature that indicates pain from a neuropathic process (neuropathic pain)

Answer 20

widespread pain that isnt explainable 
deficit of sensation like numbness and parathesias
buurning pain 
pain from light strokes on the skin 
allodynia

Question 21

What are some things that can trigger trigeminal neuralgia

Answer 21

light touch, movement, and eating

Question 22

What are the causes of neuropathic pain

Answer 22

Pressure on nerve
Physical injury to neuron
Chemical injury to neuron
Infection of neuron
Ischemia
Inflammation