Pain Assessment Flashcards
What three components help describe pain?
Intensity, it’s quality and its location on the body,
What is the minimum pain description suggested in strong.
Box scale, horizontal visual analogue scale where time permits.
Why is a measure of response to pain important?
Because it can influence the clinical outcome, it involves fear avoidance, kinsiophobia, pain attitudes and beliefs, Catatrophizing.
What is the impact of pain in strong?
How badly is it effecting ones life? Their functional status, level of s it ity, outcome, disability
What assessment tools are used for describing pain?
Questionnaires, rating scales, drawings. McGill, vas, Wong baker faces scale.
What assessment tools used for measuring responses of pain?
Questionnaire, Tampa scale, survey of pain attitudes, Catatrophizing scale,
What assessment tools for measuring impact of pain?
Self report measures, activity diaries, automated measure of activity, functional capacity evaluations. Most widely used is the Oswestry disability index. Also the pain disability index and sickness impact profile
Why might the VAS be confusing and what should be done to ensure it is not?
The Vas should be horizontal, can look like a spine and confused by patients, putting their drawings on each part
What are the three essential components of pain assessment identified in article strong
Assessments to describe pain, measure responses and measure impact of pains.
