Pain Management

Question 1

What is Nociception?

Answer 1

is the neutral process of encoding and processing noxious stimuli- how the body senses the presence of a dangerous stimulus in its periphery (outer nerve endings not in the brain, and anything that has contact to the outside world.
- i.e. sensing the presence of a potentially dangerous stimulus in the periphery
- It is initiated by nociceptors or danger receptors
- When the mechanical force, is applied to the nociceptor, reaches a certain threshold, it fires and says that that stimulus is too much for me to handle, I need to tell central nervous system about it.

Question 2

What are nocicpetors?

Answer 2

· They are little century pods that sit in our fingers, toes any part of the body.
· Nociceptors have a certain threshold that is set off by a type of stimulation depending on their different specialty.
· They are characterised by the kind of stimulation they respond to and the nature of their response:

Question 3

The pain pathway- transduction

Answer 3

Nociceptors- formation of the initial signal

Question 4

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