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Pain correct answers the sensory and emotion components - experience of discomfort, which is usually associated with actual threatened tissue damage or irritation components of pain correct answers location, intensity, quality, duration, temporal pattern Types of pain correct answers Acute- less than 3 months Chronic- greater than 3 months (most difficult physically and mentally) Psychogenic Pain correct answers a pain disorder attributed to psychological factors Organic Pain correct answers patients to perceive pain as a noxious and uncontrollable condition that is associated with a catastrophising effect Types of Chronic pain correct answers Chronic-recurrent pain Chronic-intractable pain Chronic-progressive pain Chronic-recurrent pain correct answers benign causes, repeated, intense episodes (e.g. migraines) Chronic-intractable pain correct answers discomfort present all the time with varying levels of intensity (e.g. back pain) Chronic-progressive pain correct answers continuous discomfort, gets more intense (e.g. cancer) How pain perception works (nociception) correct answers nerve carry signals along the A-delta nerve fibers and C-fibers Fibers enter spinal cord and ascend to the brain A-delta nerve fiber correct answers thinly myelinated, fast moving (A students are sharp) C-fibers correct answers unmyelinated, slow moving (C students are dull) Neuropathic pain correct answers Pain without a direct environmental/ tissue cause Types of neuropathic pain correct answers Neuralgia Causalgia Phantom limb pain Neuralgia correct answers recurrent episodes of intense shooting or stabbing pain along a nerve Causalgia correct answers recurrent episodes of severe, burning pain (rare)