SHADOW HEALTH EXAM ALL TABS
BUNDLE EXAM SCRIPT 2026 TESTED
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
⩥ Nature of Pain. Answer: involves physical, emotional and cognitive
components,
subjective and highly individualized,
,
reduces quality of life,
cannot be measured objectively,
may lead to serious physical, psychological, social, and financial
consequences,
⩥ Goals of effective pain management. Answer: Improve quality of life,
Reduce physical discomfort ,
Promote earlier mobilization and return to previous baseline function,
,Fewer hospital/clinic visits,
Decreased length of stay, resulting in lower health care costs,
⩥ physiological processes of normal pain. Answer: transduction,
transmission, perception, modulation
⩥ Nociceptor
(
noci+ ceptor
noci- Prefix Definition: to cause harm, injury or pain
-ceptor. (sep'ter), Combining form denoting taker, receiver.
from Latin nocere 'to harm' + receptor.
(A nociceptor ["pain receptor"] is a sensory neuron that responds to
damaging or potentially damaging stimuli by sending "possible threat"
signals to the spinal cord and the brain.). Answer: Somatic and visceral
free nerve endings of thinly myelinated and unmyelinated fibers.
, They usually react to tissue injury,
may also be excited by endogenous chemical substances
⩥ Transduction
(trans=="across," "beyond," "through," "changing thoroughly,"
duction==
The act of leading, bringing, or conducting.). Answer: Converts energy
produced by stimuli into electrical energy
stimuli can be *thermal, chemical, or mechanical*,
pain-producing stimulus sends impulse, which then initiates an action
potential,
i.e. touching a hot stove
⩥ Transmission of pain. Answer: Excitatory neurotransmitters send
electrical impulses across the synaptic cleft between the nerve fibers,
*enhance* the pain impulse
⩥ Perception of pain. Answer: The point the person is aware of the pain,