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ABCs of pain
Affective - emotional factors can affect pain experience
Behavioral - how one expresses or controls pain
Cognitive - one’s attitudes about pain
4 Major Categories of Pain
Nociceptive
Neuropathic
Psychogenic
Carcinogenic
Cutaneous pain
sharp, bright, burning, can be fast or slow
Deep Somatic pain
stems from tendons, muscles, joints, periosteum, a blood vessels
Visceral pain
originates from internal organs; diffused at first then later may be localized
Psychogenic pain
individual feels pain but cause is emotional not physical
Fast pain
localized; carried through A-Delta axons in skin
Slow pain
aching throbbing burning; carried by C Fibers
what is referred pain
occurs away from pain site
Noxious
harmful, injurious
(noxious stimuli)
Nociceptor
nerve receptors that transmit pain impulses