Question | Answer |
What is pain? | Unpleasant sensation and emotional response associated with actual or potential tissue damage |
What are nocioceptors? | Sensory receptors that detect pain (thermal, chemical, and mechanical). Also lowers the threshold for pain. |
What are the signs of inflammation? | Redness, Swelling, Tenderness to touch, Lost of function, Increased temperature, Severe Pain |
What is the proliferation/fibroblastic repair phase? | Fibroblastic cells are laid down in a matrix of collagen fibers and forms scar tissue in a random manner |
What is the maturation remodeling phase? | Realigning of collagen fibers that make up the scar tissue to the tensile force to which scar is subjected |
Why are prolong spasms bad for you? | ↑ compression of the blood vessels, leads to ischemia(a new source of pain) |
What is peripheral pain modulation? | Decrease pain by targeting the peripheral nociceptors |
How does ice help with pain? | Decrease nerve conduction velocity |
What is the pain gate theory? | Increase Large A beta fibers input to yield no pain |
What is Endogenous Opiate Theory? | Neurotransmitters such as enkephalins, endorphins, serotonin, dopamine are released by the body |
How is pain signal transmitted? | Ascending Pathway |
What are proprioceptors? | Sensory receptors that detect joint position |
What starts the healing process? | An injury that is severe enough to cause tissue damage |
What is the 3rd stage of healing? | Mature remodeling phase |
What is the 2nd stage of healing? | Proliferation/Fibroblastic repair phase |
What is the 1st stage of healing? | Inflammatory - response phase |
What is the treatment for the inflammation stage? | Do not aggravate injured tissue with any motion, control edema, decrease pain, rest |
What are the signs and symptoms of the proliferation stage? | May still have some tenderness to touch, complaints of pain with movement associated with stressing the damaged tissue (usually only one direction) |
What is the treatment for the proliferation stage? | Don't do anything to potentially damage the scar tissue, pain free exercises |
What is the treatment for the maturation stage? | Must add stress (ex or stretch) so scar tissue does not get laid down in a tight manner |