HPEX 353 - Pain and Its Management
Chapter 3 fully solved graded A+
Three types of pain clinics (models for treatment) - correct answer ✔✔1. Pain clinic: Outpatient
Usually focus on dx and management of individuals with chronic pain
Focus on specific pain issues, such as back pain or head ache
2.Multidisciplinary pain clinic:
Inpatient or outpatient
Include specific tx
Provide services from different professional, who can assess and manage physical restoration or
rehabilition and medical needs and provide educational and psychological services
3. Multidisciplinary pain center:
Found in med school or teaching hospital
Most complex model for managing and TXing pain
Engage in research
DEFINITION OF PAIN - correct answer ✔✔a sensation of hurting or of strong discomfort in some part of
the body, caused by injury, a disease, or a functional disorder and transmitted through the nervous
system
ACUTE PAIN - correct answer ✔✔-helpful in warning that something is wrong in normal body functioning
-warns of inflammation, tissue damage, infection, injury, trauma, or surgery somewhere in the body
- often accompanied by anxiety
CHRONIC PAIN - correct answer ✔✔~100 million adults in the US suffer from CP
, -No longer useful of beneficial
-Difficult to manage, can aggravate other health conditions, and may lead to depression and anxiety
-Derived from damage to tissues rather than nerves and is experienced mostly in the back, legs, and
arms
-Pain is well localized, often has an aching or throbbing quality, and is constant
-somatic if it is the result of damage or injury to muscles, tendons, and ligaments, usually in the back and
thighs
CHRONIC PAIN (NEUROPATHIC PAIN) - correct answer ✔✔- Comes from a nervous system lesion
- Neural pain = lesion is in the brain or spinal cord
- Peripheral Neuropathic pain = lesion is along the cranial or spinal nerves
-Severe, sharp, stabbing, burning, cold, numbing, tingling, or weakening
Angina pain - correct answer ✔✔occurs when the blood supply to the heart muscle is disrupted
Breakthrough pain - correct answer ✔✔reoccurrence of chronic pain that earlier responded to pain
management
Malignant pain - correct answer ✔✔from cancer or tx of cancer
Phantom limb pain - correct answer ✔✔pain felt from an amputated body part
Psyhogenic pain - correct answer ✔✔often experienced by individuals with psychological disorders
How pain is experienced is based on variable: - correct answer ✔✔1. Early experience of pain: fear of
pain
2. Cultural background: influence how a person responds to pain
3. Anxiety and depression
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