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Pain
Term | Definition |
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Pain | Unpleasant sensory and emotional experience |
Nociception | Subjective pain perception |
Gate control theory of pain | proposed by Melzack and Wall in 1965. Pain can be reduced by non-nociceptive stimuli (heat/cold) because it travels to the dorsal horn of the spinal cord faster than the norciceptive stimuli |
Neuromatrix theory of pain | 1989 Melzack, pain is a response to output depending on input. |
Body - self neuromatrix | combination of perception, homeostatic mechanisms, and behavior. |
Neuroplasticity | ability of the neurons to change structure, function, and chemical profiles |
Pain Threshold | point at which a stimulus is perceived as painful |
Pain tolerance | maximum amount of pain a person can tolerate or endure without response |
Perceptual dominance | decrease in pain perception because of a dominating pain perception in another |
Central Sensitization | increase in pain or hypersensitivity |
nociceptive pain | results from injury or tissue damage |
neuropathic pain | results from damage to the nervous system |
acute pain | sudden and associated with injury or trauma |
subacute pain | follows acute and involves inflammation, day 4-6 |
chronic pain | persistent, longer than 3 months |
muscle spasm | involuntary contraction from excess input |
pain management | process of providing care that seeks to reduce or alleviate pain |