Psychological pain

moving canvas or picture roll. Zautra et al. recently documented that a history of depression increase pain among rheumatoid arthritis patients, finding both joint pain and bodily pain were linked to a patient’s history of depression. Coping strategies of problem- focused and emotion-focused can be defined as the psychological and behaviour steps taken that help a patient to manage the psychological stress triggered by an illness. It is apparent that Renoir employed both problem- and…

Thesis Statement Chronic pain is a disabling condition that affects over 100 million Americans (IOM, 2011). It is constant or recurring pain that remains beyond the healing of an injury or acute illness. Chronic pain has the ability to destructively affect a person’s quality of life including their mental and emotional well-being. The pharmaceutical industry’s strong influence on American culture encourages healthcare providers to overly prescribe medications that offer temporary relief to…

diseases (Boyse et al, 2012). Adolescents with chronic disease are at an increased risk for psychological complications and their peer relationships are jeopardized. Chronic disease obviously causes the afflicted to experience physical pain, but mental health can also be compromised. “Studies on chronic pain and its relationship to quality of life in adolescents show positive relationships between pain and psychological distress” (Hunfeld et al, 2001). Children with…

Pain. It is crucial to our way of life, yet we have a hard time comprehending it. To understand what pain is, it first has to be defined but a definition for pain is hard to achieve due to it’s malleable and personal nature. The International Association for the Study of Pain defines pain as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage”. Although many people think that pain from a psychological source is, “not real”, if someone regards an…

Could Mr Smith’s culture influence his pain assessment? Why? What strategies could you employ to ensure that you are adequately addressing Mr Smith’s pain? A proper Pain assessment helps in preparing an accurate pain treatment plan. It involves a continuous process and multidimensional factors that are required in formulating an effective pain management plan. There are many factors that are responsible for a person’s pain, which may be Psychological, Physical, Emotional or Cultural. In…

The Proprioceptive Memory Theory suggests that the pain felt before the amputation creates pain memories within the brain that directly influence the discomfort felt after the amputation by continuing to send pain signals to the brain even when the limb no longer exists (Virani 46). Again, this theory follows the generalization made at the beginning of this essay, furthering the idea that when a hardship is encountered, the brain tries to continue as before the occurrence. Vilayanur S.…

Corporal punishment in children is often defined as, “use of physical force with the intention of causing a child to experience pain, but not injury, for the purposes of correction or control of the child’s behavior” (Frechette, Zoratti, & Romano, 2015). I chose this topic because as a child growing up I would receive spankings, hit with a belt, and other forms of physical punishment. In my case it was never intended as physical abuse but to make sure what behavior I did was to not happen again.…

health problems faced by the patient to be high pain levels and lack of pain management (Dear Et al, 2015), Mental health of patient being unable to see friends, family and lack of mobility (Giannouli Et al, 2016) and lastly the well-being of the patients ongoing health in regards to his nutrition (Leslie, Hankey.2015). There are two types of health care goals I could aim to demonstrate for this patient. The first is In-care goals being to reduce the pain by getting medication prescribed, work…

extremity pain. Current medications are Celebrex, Gabapentin, Cymbalta, and Norco. Patient has been treated with 18 sessions of physical therapy and TENS unit use. She has been prescribed with Cymbalta for pain and depression. She has completed pain coping skills and reports that this has been helpful. She is having a depressed mood and would possibly benefit from individual psychotherapy. Based on the progress report dated 03/17 /16, the patient presents for bilateral upper extremity pain. Pain…

08/19/16, the patient complains of 7/10 pain to her lower back, left knee, right knee and right ankle. The pain radiates to the left leg and right leg. Of note, she had surgery on the right knee to drain fluid in 2010, 2012, and 2014. She had left knee meniscus repair in April 2016. She had some physical therapy for her knees, facet joint injections to her low back and a radiofrequency ablation that offered little relief. Her condition is associated with back pain, difficulty in ambulation,…