Pain

Question 1

What is pain

Answer 1

Unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage

Question 2

Pain can either be

Answer 2

Physiological
Psychological
Or both

Question 3

True or false
pain is the main reason people seek treatment

Answer 3

True

Question 4

True or false
injury may occur without pain

Answer 4

True

Question 5

True or false
pain may occur without injury

Answer 5

True

Question 6

What is threshold

Answer 6

The minimum intensity of a stimulus that is perceived as painful

Question 7

True or false
the threshold can increase or decrease depending on the emotional status of the patient

Answer 7

True

Question 8

What is tolerance

Answer 8

The maximum intensity of a pain producing stimulus that a subject is willing to accept in a given situation

Question 9

True or false
threshold and tolerance differ from person to person

Answer 9

True

Question 10

Difference between acute vs chronic pain

Answer 10

Question 11

Pain categories

Answer 11

Question 12

What is nociceptor

Answer 12

High threshold sensory receptors of peripheral somatosensory nervous system that are capable of transducing and encoding noxious stimuli

Question 13

 where are somatic Nociceptors located

Answer 13

Skin, muscles, tendons, ligaments, bones

Question 14

Where are visceral nociceptors located

Answer 14

viscera and organs

Question 15

True or false
both somatic and visceral nociceptors share the same pathways to the brain

Answer 15

True

Question 16

Some organs are not sensitive to pain, meaning they lack…

Answer 16

Visceral nociceptors

Question 17

What organs are not sensitive to pain

Answer 17

KLL

Kidney, liver, lungs

Question 18

Neuropathic pain

Answer 18

Lesion of a disease of the somatosensory nervous system

Question 19

What is allodynia and what is hyperalgesia

Answer 19

Allodynia :
- pain due to a stimulus that does not normally provoke pain

Hyperalgesia:
-Increase in pain from a stimulus that normally provoke pain

Question 20

Neuropathic pain can be either _____________ or ___________

Answer 20

Peripheral or central

Question 21

What is psychogenic pain

Answer 21

Non-organic psychological pain that is complex and associated with emotional, cognitive, behavioral responses

Question 22

Types of headache

Answer 22

Question 23

What is carcinogenic pain

Answer 23

Cancer related pain; whether the cancer is malignant or not
Very severe 

Question 24

How can carcinogenic pain be treated

Answer 24

Managed with powerful pharmacological narcotics


Question 25

True or false
Carcinogenic pain can be treated with electrophysical agents EPA

Answer 25

False

Contraindication due to increase in metastasis and activity of cancer cell hyperplasia

Question 26

Pain dimensions

Answer 26

Question 27

What is meant by intensity

Answer 27

How much a person hurts
It’s what we assess

Question 28

What is meant by quality of pain

Answer 28

How the person feels or senses the pain; itching, burning, shooting, sharp, dull etc.

Determines the cause of pain

Question 29

What is meant by affect of pain

Answer 29

How it affects the person emotionally
Help in choosing pain therapy

Question 30

What is meant by location of pain

Answer 30

Where the person feel the pain

Help differentiate between physical and psychological functioning

Question 31

What activates Nociceptors

Answer 31

A noxious stimuli that can either be mechanical, chemical, or thermal 

Question 32

When will nociceptors be activated

Answer 32

When their threshold are exceeded

Question 33

Nociceptors that are mechanoreceptors will sense:

Answer 33

Touch, pressure, vibration

Question 34

What Mechanoreceptors responsible for touch, pressure, vibration

Answer 34

Meissner
Pacinian corpuscles

Question 35

Nociceptors that are Thermoreceptors will sense

Answer 35

Heat and cold

Question 36

Thermoreceptors that sense heat or cold are:

Answer 36

Ruffini corpuscles
Krause end bulbs