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chronic pain
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unrelenting
exceeds intensity and/or duration one would expect much more complex acute pain becomes chronic pain even though damage has healed no further reason to believe arising from tissue damage why: pain history cultural history psychology |
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problem of chronic pain
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physical and emotional cripple
pain takes over person's life disruptive counselors may have toruble don't believe individual feel wasting time |
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pain management
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not an attempt to eliminate pain, just control it
teach response reinforcing positive behavior 1. bio feedback: electrodes attached to body person asked to relax that part printout shows relaxation 2. hypnosis 3. relaxation technique endorphins bind with receptive sites |
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pain and factors
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perception of injury that caused the pain
2 basic origins: 1. peripheral 2. central factors |
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pain definition
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unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage
physical and subjective: cultural self-esteem general health family reactions pain history |
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what's happening when experiencing pain
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individual alerted to damage that is going on or going to take place
opiate receptors in brain are used to manufactor endorphines body's way of curing pain during intense pain, body cannot relax to produce endorphines |
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central factors
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everything else that affects pain
learning pain history cultural learning subjective issues example: medication, emotion, circumstances cultural history- how parents and children act when they hurt themselves subjective pain history- how much pain person has experienced in past |
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CIBPS
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chronic intractable beign pain syndrome
no cancer chronic but then attributed from a benign symptom pain no longer medically related |
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acute pain
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relatively recent
pain occuring very close to even that caused tissue damage peripheral factors- dominant treatment- medical, surgery, medication, pain relievers sensory and reception sites stimulated- nocioception (but secondary) |
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neuropathology
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person doesn't sense pain
no alarm given off to individual more damage can occur |
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peripheral factors
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objective, actual tissue damage that was done
you can see it pain receptors triggered by pressure pain from actual tissue damage nerve stimulated, message to brain |
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nocioception
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periphery to brain
sensation of actual tissue damage |
