Pain

Measuring Pain 1. 1. Sensory - intensity, duration, threshold, tolerance, location, etc 2. 2. Neurophysiological - brainwave activity, heart rate, etc 3. 3. Emotional and motivational - anxiety, anger, depression, resentment, etc 4. 4. Behavioural - avoidance of exercise, pain complaints, etc 5. 5. Impact on lifestyle - marital distress, changes in sexual behaviour 6. 6. Information processing

Effects of Pain Pain is a natural occurring phenomenon within the body. Pain acts as an alert system for the body. It notifies a person to an issue that is happening within the body such as a sprained ankle, or a broken finger. Some people experience chronic pain. Chronic pain does not only effect a person physically. It can also have effects that are mentally and emotionally overwhelming for the person suffering with chronic pain. Pain is not as simple as a physical sensation you feel. However

Pain is often an unpleasant part of being human. The experience is different for every individual person and, the result of the pain does not always depend on the stimulus but can be effected by the contest of any given situation. Neuropathic and nociceptive pain serve no observable purpose and can often be an immense burden on the lives of the people that suffer from chronic and neuropathic pain. Their physical, mental and emotional health can be seriously impacted as well as their social life,

Introduction I’m in pain! those are three words that mostly everyone uses at some point in their lives. Pain can affect a persons’ well-being whether it is physical or psychological. More over not everyone deals with pain in the same way. Pain can affect a persons’ function because they will be unable to perform daily tasks at the level of physical and mental capacity they are use to performing at. With that said the question still remains, what is pain? According to Frazier (2015). Pain is subjective

The concept of pain is an all-too-familiar concept for most in our society. The majority of people today either know someone who experiences pain on a regular basis, or experience this phenomenon themselves. The nursing community is a population that has a particularly high rate of pain linked to work-related injuries as well as physical and psychological stress. Hignett described low back pain as being a high risk occupation in relation to low back pain (1996). While pain and its treatment occur

Endodontic pain in the context of oro-facial pain. Endodontic pain is typically derived from noxious insults to the pulp and peri-radicular tissues and the inflammation which follows. Nociceptors of the pulp and peri-radicular tissues have their cell bodies located in the trigeminal ganglia. When these primary afferent nociceptors experience membrane depolarization due to a noxious stimulus, they send an action potential to the second-order neurons whose cell bodies reside in the medulla. The second-order

Literature Review of Complementary and Alternative Methods to Treat Cancer Pain Literature Review A Literature review is an essential and intense appraisal of previous research, it bestows a groundwork on which, to base a novel evidence and typically performed afore data collection, for it magnifies upon the aims of selecting a specific research question (Polit & Beck, 2017). Introduction Pain occurs in the human body as the result of a physiological series of electrical and chemical modality;

Introduction Pain management in burn unit hospitals continues to be a major challenge for many hospitalized patients of all ages. Patients who are required to be hospitalized are usually ones who have moderate to severe burns that result in traumatic tissue damages. The topic of this research paper will be about pain management in patients with burns. The purpose of this paper is stated in following as a patient intervention comparison and outcome (PICO) format, in patients with severe burns who

Like a “bell-ringing mechanism in a church”. That is how, in 1664, Descartes (Jackson, 2002) suggested pain should be visualized. This, however, is a very primitive description of the phenomenon of pain. Injury or inflammation of a bodily tissue can lead to profound changes in the internal chemical environment. Damaged cells discharge their intracellular components, releasing substances, notably ATP, potassium ions (K+) and acetyl chloine (ACh). Some of these contents act on nociceptors directly

Myofascial pain has an association with Tension Type Headache, leading to a hypothesis that manual therapy to treat myofascial trigger points, through trigger point release, relieves Tension Type Headache. Various studies have been performed to determine the efficacy of myofascial trigger point release on relieving tension type headache intensity, frequency and duration. These studies have relied on subjective pain measurement such as a visual analogue scale (VAS) or the McGill Pain Questionnaire