Pharmacological, Non-pharmacological, and Surgical.
Who defined pain as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage?
American Pain Society
When does a full behavioral response to pain become apparent?
3-12 months
What is the conscious experience of discomfort?
Pain perception
What is the level at which someone experiences pain?
Pain threshold
What is the maximum intensity or duration of pain that a person is willing to endure once the threshold has been reached?
Pain tolerance
Who appears more tolerant to pain, men or women?
Women
A decrease in pain tolerance is evident to what age group?
Elderly
Repeated exposure to pain, fatigue, anger, boredom, apprehension, anxiety, fear, and sleep deprivation affects pain tolerance how?
No, pain is only present if accompanied by a disease
Does sleeping remove pain?
No, people in pain may become exhausted or use sleep as an escape mechanism but it cannot truly remove pain
Is pain only a result and cannot be a cause?
No, pain can both be a result and a cause, unresolved pain can create other problems such as anger, anxiety, immobility and delay in healing
Can physiologic pain encompass emotional hurt?
Yes
Can pain be adequately defined, identified, or measured by an observer?
No, pain is uniquely experienced by each individual and can only be described by themself
As a valuable diagnostic indicator, what does pain usually indicate?
Tissue damage or pathology
What are the components of pain?
Stimuli, Perception, Response, Intensity, Threshold, and Tolerance
What is the type of pain according to source that is considered the most common type? In addition, it is caused by potentially harmful stimuli being detected by nociceptors around the body?
Nociceptive pain
What are the types of nociceptive pain?
Somatic and visceral
What is the type of nociceptive pain that is caused by injury to skin, muscles, bones, joints, and connective tissues. It often involves inflammation of injured tissue?
Somatic pain
What is the type of nociceptive pain that is perceived as a sharp or burning discomfort or pricking quality?
Superficial somatic
What is a type of nociceptive pain that produces localized sensations that are sharp, throbbing, and intense?
Deep somatic
What is the type of pain according to source that originates from ongoing injury to the internal organs or the tissues that support them?
Visceral pain
What is pain according to source that can be a symptoms or complication of several diseases and condition?
Neuropathic pain
What is the simple label for all kinds of pain that can be best explained by psychological problems?
Psychogenic pain
What is the type of pain that is usually of short duration (less than 6 months) and is often described in sensory terms such as sharp, stabbing, and shooting?
Acute pain
What type of pain is a major health concern?
Chronic pain
What type of pain is accompanied by observable physical response, increased or decreased BP, tachychardia, diaphoresis, and tachypnea?
Acute pain
What type of pain is caused by rheumatoid arthritis?
Chronic nonmalignant pain
What type of pain does cancer induce?
Chronic malignant pain
What type of chronic pain does migraine and headaches cause?
Chronic intermittent
What type of pain is specific and localized, and its severity is associated with the acuity or sensitivity of the injury or disease process?
Acute pain
What type of pain is nonspecific and generalized, and its severity is out of proportion to the stage of the injury or disease?
Chronic pain
What is discomfort that is perceived in a general area of the body, but not in the exact site where an organ is anatomically located?
Referred pain
What is a type of referred pain that has trigger points, hypermitable areas within a muscle in which nerve impulses bombard CNS and are expresssed at refrred pain?
Myofascial pain
What is a hyper irritable myofascial pain that causes obvious complaint?
Active
What is a dormant myofascial pain that produces no pain except loss of ROM?
Latent
What type of referred pain is deep pain and may originate from sclerotomic, myotomic, or dermatomic nerve irritation/injury?
Scelortomic and Dermatomic pain
What is the area of bone/fascia that is supplied by a single nerve root?