Touch

Question 1

What is the medical term for touch?

Answer 1

Somatic senses

Question 2

What is proprioception?

Answer 2

recognition of body position

Question 3

What is nociception?

Answer 3

Pain

Question 4

What is the technical term for feeling pain?

Answer 4

Nociception

Question 5

What is the term used for the recognition of body position?

Answer 5

Proprioception

Question 6

What is the somatosensory system meaning?

Answer 6

Touch

Question 7

Where would you find sensory receptors?

Answer 7

Epithelia, skeletal muscles, bones, joints, internal organs and the cardiovascular system

Question 8

What are the three types of receptors?

Answer 8

Thermoreceptors, mechanoreceptors and chemorecpetors

Question 9

What ado chemoreceptors do?

Answer 9

Change chemical signals into action potential

Question 10

Where is the primary somatosensory cortex?

Answer 10

The parietal lobe of the cerebral cortex

Question 11

What are the different types of somatosenses?

Answer 11

Cutaneous, kinesthesia and visceral

Question 12

How many neurons are involved in somatosensory signals?

Answer 12

at least 3

Question 13

Where is the primary neuron located?

Answer 13

dorsal root ganglion of the spinal nerve

Question 14

Where would you find the secondary neuron?

Answer 14

In the spine or brain stem

Question 15

Where does the secondary neuron terminate?

Answer 15

The ventro-posterior nucleus of the thalamus

Question 16

Where does the tertiary neuron finish?

Answer 16

The postcentral gyrus of the cerebral cortex

Question 17

The dorsal column medial lemniscal pathway transmitts what sort of information?

Answer 17

Fine touch, vibration and concious proprioceptive information

Question 18

What pathway does fine touch, vibration and concious proprioceptive information travel through?

Answer 18

The dorsal column medial lemniscal pathway

Question 19

The ventral spinothalamic pathway transmits what sort of information?

Answer 19

Pain, temperature, itch and crude touch

Question 20

What pathway does pain, temperature, itch and crude touch travel through?

Answer 20

The ventral spinothalamic pathway

Question 21

The dorsal spinocerebellar pathway transmits what sort of information?

Answer 21

Proprioceptive information

Question 22

The ventral spinocerebellar pathway transmits what sort of information?

Answer 22

Proprioceptive information

Question 23

What pathway does proprioceptive information travel through?

Answer 23

The dorsal and ventral spinocerebellar tracts

Question 24

What is the name for a somatosensory map?

Answer 24

Homunculus

Question 25

What is pain?

Answer 25

An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage

Question 26

What is nociceptive pain?

Answer 26

Stimulation of peripheral nerve fibers that respond only to stimuli approaching or exceeding harmful intensity

Question 27

What do we call an unpleasant sesory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage?

Answer 27

Pain

Question 28

What is caused by the stimulation of peripheral nerve fibers that respond only to stimuli approaching or exceeding harmful intensity?

Answer 28

Nocicptive pain

Question 29

What causes neuropathic pain?

Answer 29

Damage or disease affecting any part of the nervous system involved in bodily feeling

Question 30

What does damage or disease affecting any part of the nervous system involved in bodily feeling cause?

Answer 30

Neuropathic pain

Question 31

What would peripheral neuropathic pain be described as?

Answer 31

Burning, tingling, electrical, stabbing or pins and needles

Question 32

What could feeling burning, tingling, electrical, stabbing or pins and needles be?

Answer 32

Peripheral neuropathic pain

Question 33

What is acute pain?

Answer 33

Normal pain

Question 34

What do we call normal pain?

Answer 34

Acute pain

Question 35

What is chronic pain?

Answer 35

Pain illness felt day after day

Question 36

What do we call pain illness that is felt day after day?

Answer 36

Chronic pain

Question 37

What is phantom pain?

Answer 37

A pain from a limb or organ which a person no longer receives physical signals

Question 38

What do we call pain from a limb or organ from which a person no longer receives physical signals?

Answer 38

Phantom pain

Question 39

What causes cutaneous pain?

Answer 39

Injury to the skin or superficial tissues

Question 40

Injury to the skin or superficial tissues will cause what?

Answer 40

Cutaneous pain

Question 41

Where does somatic pain originate from?

Answer 41

Ligaments, tendons, bones, blood vessles, fasciae and muscles

Question 42

Pain from the ligaments, tendons, bones, blood vessels, fasciae and muscles is called what?

Answer 42

Somatic pain

Question 43

Wher does visceral pain originate?

Answer 43

The body's viscera or organs

Question 44

Pain originating from the body's organs is called what?

Answer 44

Visceral pain

Question 45

What is a pain scale useful for therapists?

Answer 45

Helps to monitor symptoms and outcomes

Question 46

What are nociceptors?

Answer 46

Free nerve endings with cell bodys outside of the spinal column in the dorsal root ganglion

Question 47

How many types of nociceptors are there?

Answer 47

3

Question 48

What are the different types of nociceptors?

Answer 48

Mechanical, chemical and thermal

Question 49

What do you call nociceptors that have a response that comes only after the onset of innflammation to the surrounding tissue

Answer 49

Silent or sleeping nociceptors

Question 50

What are the two types of axons involoved in nociception?

Answer 50

Alpha and C fibre axons

Question 51

Fast pain travel down whach tract?

Answer 51

Neospinothalamic tract

Question 52

Slow pain travels down which tract?

Answer 52

Paleospinothalamic tract

Question 53

How fast do alpha axons transmit signals?

Answer 53

6-30m/s

Question 54

How fast do C fibre axons transmit signals?

Answer 54

around 2 m/s

Question 55

How quickly is fast pain felt?

Answer 55

within a tenth of a second

Question 56

How is fast pain felt?

Answer 56

Sharp, acute prickling pain

Question 57

How is slow pain felt?

Answer 57

aching, throbbing burning pain

Question 58

What is a non nociception stimuli often used to gate pain?

Answer 58

Vibration

Question 59

What is haptic communication?

Answer 59

The means by which people and other animals communicate with touching

Question 60

Who came up with the five haptic categories and when?

Answer 60

Heslin in 1974

Question 61

What are the five haptic categories?

Answer 61

Functional/professional, social/polite, friendship/warmth, love/intimacy, sexual/arousal

Question 62

Who came up with the 18 different meanings of touch and when?

Answer 62

Jones and Yarbrough 1985

Question 63

Who camee up with the five categories of power bases?

Answer 63

French and raven

Question 64

Greeting and departure are both what sort of touches?

Answer 64

Ritualistic

Question 65

Attention getting and compliance are both what sorts of touches?

Answer 65

Control

Question 66

Instrumental ancillary and reference to appearance are both what sort of touches?

Answer 66

Task-related

Question 67

What are the 5 categories of power bases?

Answer 67

Legitimate power, referent power, expert power, rewar power and coercive power

Question 68

What sort of power does someone have if they can persuade and influence others simply by being likeable?

Answer 68

Referent power

Question 69

What do you call a culture that communicates mainly through words?

Answer 69

Low context culture

Question 70

What are three middle ground touching countries?

Answer 70

France India and Germany