NMT Chapter 14, salvo, EXAM QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
What best describes the use of techniques for pain management and physical rehabilitation? -
CORRECT ANSWERS Clinical massage
What is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential
tissue damage? - CORRECT ANSWERS Pain
What is a synonym for pain perception? - CORRECT ANSWERS Nociception
What individual contributed to the specificity theory of pain? - CORRECT
ANSWERS Desacartes
Which individuals proposed the gate control theory of pain? - CORRECT
ANSWERS Mezlack and wall
What theory states that pain is a response or output determined by how the brain interprets
incoming information or input? - CORRECT ANSWERS Neuromatrix theory of pain
What best describes a unique combination of perception, homeostatic mechanisms, and
behavior? - CORRECT ANSWERS Body-self neuromatrix
What is the ability of neurons to change their structure, function and chemical profile and to
form new neural pathways throughout life? - CORRECT ANSWERS Neuroplasticity
What best describes the maximum amount of pain an individual can tolerate or endure before
outwardly responding to it? - CORRECT ANSWERS Pain tolerance
, What best describes the point at which a stimulus is perceived as painful? - CORRECT
ANSWERS Pain threshold
What is a decrease in pain perception or in one or more areas of the body because of a
dominating pain perception in another? - CORRECT ANSWERS Perceptual dominance
What is an increase in pain or pain hypersensitivity, with neurons perceiving non painful events
as painful? - CORRECT ANSWERS Central sensitization
What is a type of pain that originated from injuries and resultant tissue damage? - CORRECT
ANSWERS Nociceptive pain
Pain that is sudden and that is usually associated with injury and trauma is called _________
pain; ________ pain usually persists longer than 3 months, and it is offen difficult or impossible
to determine when it started or what causes it. - CORRECT ANSWERS Acute;chronic
What best describes an involuntary muscle contraction resulting from excess neural input? -
CORRECT ANSWERS Muscle spasm
What best describes the process used after surgery, injuries or illnesses to help individuals
restore function and regain as much self-sufficiency as possible? - CORRECT
ANSWERS Physical rehabilitation
What best describes "medically stable"? - CORRECT ANSWERS Vital signs within normal
limits and prognosis good to excellent
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
What best describes the use of techniques for pain management and physical rehabilitation? -
CORRECT ANSWERS Clinical massage
What is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential
tissue damage? - CORRECT ANSWERS Pain
What is a synonym for pain perception? - CORRECT ANSWERS Nociception
What individual contributed to the specificity theory of pain? - CORRECT
ANSWERS Desacartes
Which individuals proposed the gate control theory of pain? - CORRECT
ANSWERS Mezlack and wall
What theory states that pain is a response or output determined by how the brain interprets
incoming information or input? - CORRECT ANSWERS Neuromatrix theory of pain
What best describes a unique combination of perception, homeostatic mechanisms, and
behavior? - CORRECT ANSWERS Body-self neuromatrix
What is the ability of neurons to change their structure, function and chemical profile and to
form new neural pathways throughout life? - CORRECT ANSWERS Neuroplasticity
What best describes the maximum amount of pain an individual can tolerate or endure before
outwardly responding to it? - CORRECT ANSWERS Pain tolerance
, What best describes the point at which a stimulus is perceived as painful? - CORRECT
ANSWERS Pain threshold
What is a decrease in pain perception or in one or more areas of the body because of a
dominating pain perception in another? - CORRECT ANSWERS Perceptual dominance
What is an increase in pain or pain hypersensitivity, with neurons perceiving non painful events
as painful? - CORRECT ANSWERS Central sensitization
What is a type of pain that originated from injuries and resultant tissue damage? - CORRECT
ANSWERS Nociceptive pain
Pain that is sudden and that is usually associated with injury and trauma is called _________
pain; ________ pain usually persists longer than 3 months, and it is offen difficult or impossible
to determine when it started or what causes it. - CORRECT ANSWERS Acute;chronic
What best describes an involuntary muscle contraction resulting from excess neural input? -
CORRECT ANSWERS Muscle spasm
What best describes the process used after surgery, injuries or illnesses to help individuals
restore function and regain as much self-sufficiency as possible? - CORRECT
ANSWERS Physical rehabilitation
What best describes "medically stable"? - CORRECT ANSWERS Vital signs within normal
limits and prognosis good to excellent
