Pain Definitions

Question 1

Define Nociception?

Answer 1

Subset to the sensory nervous system related to pain and temperature

Question 2

Define Allodynia.

Answer 2

Pain due to stimulus that does not normally provoke pain

Question 3

Define Hyperalgesia?

Answer 3

Increased pain from a stimulus that normally provokes pain

Question 4

Define Neuropathic Pain?

Answer 4

Pain caused by a lesion or disease of the somatosensory nervous system

Question 5

Define Nociplastic Pain?

Answer 5

Pain that comes from altered nociception despite no tissue damage causing activation of peripheral nociceptors or evidence for disease of the somatosensory causing pain

Question 6

Define sensitisation in the context of pain.

Answer 6

Increased responsiveness of nociceptive neurons to their normal input, and/or recruitment of a response to normally subthreshold inputs

Question 7

Define Central Sensitisation?

Answer 7

Increased responsiveness of nociceptive neurons in the CNS

Question 8

Define Peripheral Sensitisation?

Answer 8

Increased responsiveness of nociceptive neurons in the PNS. Acute soft tissue injury

Question 9

What does multidisciplinary treatment involve?

Answer 9

Treatment from different disciplines

Multidisciplinary approaches can enhance recovery in pain management.

Question 10

Define Acute pain?

Answer 10

Short term protective response to injury or tissue damage which is resolved by the body healing

Acute pain typically lasts less than three months.

Question 11

Define chronic pain.

Answer 11

Lasts for more than 3 months and is influenced by neurological, psychological or environmental factors