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Pain

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show common reason for health care visits  
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Chronic pain lasts more than?   show
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What are reasons for unrelived pain?   show
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show whatever the person says it is when they say it  
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show genetic, autonomic and physical determinants of pain  
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The affective compnent of pain is the?   show
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show anger, fear, depression and anxiety  
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What is suffering?   show
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show the observable actions used to express or control the pain  
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What is the cognitive component of pain?   show
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show encompasses factors such as demographics  
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show the physiologic process by which info about tissue damage is communicated to the CNS  
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What are the 4 processes of nociception?   show
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Transduction is?   show
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show peripheral nerves  
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show inflammation and the subsequent release of chemical mediators increase the likelihood of transduction  
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What chemicals are involved in the process of sensitization?   show
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show pain produced from activation of peripheral nociceptors  
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show pain from abonormal processes of stimuli by the nervous system  
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What is transmission?   show
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What are the 3 segments involved in nociceptive signal transmission?   show
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show areas on the skin that are innervated primarily by a single spinal cord segment  
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Perception occurs when pain is?   show
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What is modulation?   show
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show damage to somatic or visceral tissue  
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What is somatic pain?   show
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show arises from internal organs such as the intestine and bladder  
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Neuropathic pain is caused by?   show
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show centrally generated pain  
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show numbing, burning, shooting stabbing, and can be short, sudden, intense  
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How long is chronic pain?   show
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Chronic pain is?   show
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show vital sign  
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show to describe the pt's pain experience, identify the pt's goal for therapy  
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What are the basic pain characteristics?   show
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show when the pain started  
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Duration is?   show
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What is breakthrough pain?   show
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The area of pain assists in identifying?   show
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show to determine the type of treatment  
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show the nature or characteristics of pain  
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What is titration?   show
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show inserting a catheter into the subarachnoid space  
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show a circumscribed hypersensitive area within a thigh band of muslce that is caused by acute or chronic muslce strain  
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show electrical stimulation of the brain and spinal cord  
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What is neuroablative interventions?   show
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Pain is best described as?   show
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show norepinephrine  
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show burning  
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show dangerous and can lead to many physical and psychologic complications  
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show painful stimuli to an electrical impulse though the peripheral nerve fibers  
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Transmission occurs as the electrical impulse?   show
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The point at which one feels pain is known as?   show
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The amount of pain one is willing to bear is know as?   show
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What are substances that increase pain transmission and cause inflammatory response?   show
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What are substances that decrease pain transmission and produe analgesia?   show
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Perception or awareness of pain occurs in the?   show
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Modulation occurs in the?   show
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show protective, temporary, usually self limiting and resolves with tissue healing  
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What are physiological responses?   show
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show grimacing, moaning, flinching and guarding  
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show non protective, ongoing, last longer than 3 months  
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show do not usually alter vital signs, but the client may experience depression, fatigue, and a decreased level of functioning  
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show damage to or inflammation of tissue other than that of the peripheral and CNS  
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Nociceptive pain is?   show
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Nociceptive pain resonds to?   show
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show bone, joint, muscles, skin or connective tissue  
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show an internal organ  
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show skin and tissue  
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Neuropathic pain arises from?   show
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show phantom limb, pain below the level of a spinal cord infury  
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Neuropathic pain is usually?   show
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Neuropathic pain typically responds to?   show
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What are risk factors for undertreatment of pain?   show
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show infants, children, older adults, pt's with sub. abuse prob.  
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show trauma, surgery, cancer, arthritis, fibromyalgia, neuropathy  
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