NEUROPLASTICITY IDENTIFICATION

It refers to an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage.

👉 Answer: Pain

It refers to the activation of pain receptors that detect harmful stimuli, but it is not the same as pain itself.

👉 Answer: Nociception

It is short-term pain that typically has a clear cause such as injury or surgery, serves a protective function, and usually resolves with healing.

👉 Answer: Acute pain

It is pain lasting beyond the expected healing time, often more than 3 months, involving altered pain processing and psychosocial factors.

👉 Answer: Chronic pain

It is a type of pain that arises from actual or threatened damage to non-neural tissue and is due to the activation of nociceptors.

👉 Answer: Nociceptive pain

It refers to pain arising as a direct consequence of a lesion or disease affecting the somatosensory system, often resulting from nerve damage.

👉 Answer: Neuropathic pain

It is pain that arises from altered nociception without clear evidence of actual or threatened tissue damage or disease of the somatosensory system, often called “central sensitization” or “idiopathic pain.”

👉 Answer: Nociplastic pain

It refers to pain with an overlap of nociceptive and neuropathic symptoms, such as in cancer pain, osteoarthritis, or low back pain.

👉 Answer: Mixed pain

It describes an increased responsiveness of nociceptive neurons in the central nervous system, leading to amplified pain perception, hyperalgesia, and allodynia.

👉 Answer: Central sensitization

It refers to the ability of the central nervous system to reorganize itself in response to musculoskeletal dysfunction, experience, or rehabilitation — can be adaptive or maladaptive.

👉 Answer: Neuroplasticity