Pain Flashcards
(26 cards)
T/F pain is a subjective feeling
True
What is the most common reason that people seek medical attention?
Pain
What kind of mechanism is pain?
Protective
What is the pereption of pain and the level at which it is sensed?
Pain threshold
What is the maximum amount of pain a person can withstand?
Pain tolerance
What is the risk factor for unrelieved pain?
Delay healing, stimulate the stress response, and result in pain tolerance.
Which receptors are activated by mechanical stimuli such as touch or pressure?
Mechanoreceptors
What kind of receptors are activated by chmicals in the blood, food, or air?
Chemoreceptors
What type of receptors are activated by heat or cold?
Thermoreceptors
Which type of receptor is activated by light?
Photoreceptors
Which type of receptor is activated by painful stimuli
Nociceptors
Which nerve ending has no specific structure; detect pain, light touch and are found in the skin/ bones/ internal organs; less sensitive
Exposed or non-encapsulated nerve endings (free nerve endings)
Which type of nerve endings are surrounded by one or more layers of cells (capsule); detect pressure and vibration and are more sensitive.
Encapsulated nerve endings
Whihc type of pain is the most common and is further classifed as somatic or visceral pain?
Nociceptive pain
Which type of pain results from noxious stimuli (tissue damaging event) to the skin, joints, muscles, and tendons.
It’s generally easy to pinpoint
Somatic pain
Which type of pain results from noxious stimuli to internal organs?
Usually vague and diffuse; hard to pinpoint.
Visceral pain
Which type of pain is sensed on body surfaces at distant locations from the origniated organ?
Referred pain
Which type of pain exists after the removal of a body part because secered neurons may result in spontaneous firing of spinal cord neurons due to normal sensory loss?
Phantom pain
Which type of pain is chronically progressing pain that is unrelenting and severely debilitating.
Intractable pain
Which type of pain does not respond well to typical pharmacologic pain treatments?
Intractable pain
Which type of pain is common with severe injuries, especially crushing injuries.
Intractable pain
Which type of pain results from damage to peripheral nerves by diseases or injury.
Neuropathic pain
Which pain tends to be both chronic and intractable?
Neuropathic pain
Which type of pain lasts hours to days; less than 6 months?
Acute pain
