chronic pain

Chronic Pain

100

Increased response to pain
stimuli; a trivial discomfort that causes
significant pain

Hyperalgesia

200

Responses are inconsistent with other physical findings, the symptom reports are more severe then they should be

Symptom Magnifier

300

Diabetic neuropathy; CRPS; Phantom Limb Pain are examples of this type of pain

Neuropathic

400

How long does a symptom need to persist to be considered Chronic

3 months

500

Acute pain stimulates this type of response, chronic pain does not

Sympathetic nervous system response

Nerve injuries

100

Order your -neuriums from outside to inside

epi, peri, endo

200

In these nerve injuries, all of the connective tissues are severed, resulting in low healing rates

Neurotmesis

300

These nerve injuries tend to heal in around 12 weeks with excellent recovery provided all of the involved fibers are the same type of injury

Neuropraxia

400

while never decompression removes the tissue over or around the nerve to decrease pressure on the nerve,

this technique moves the nerve to a different place

Transposition

500

When repairing nerves, this technique is faster, but results in less favorable outcomes

Epineural repair 

Fascicular repair sutures each smaller nerve bundle

Pain

100

This type of pain has no clear cause

idiopathic pain

200

This pain is typically described as burning, tingling, shooting, and possibly numbness

Neuropathic pain

300

Patients with low back pain for 6 months, have this percentage chance of returning to work

50%

400

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome typically involves which nerve?

median

500

this type of lesion may be partial or complete; the portions of nerve below and above the block conduct normally, but there is no conduction across an area of complete block.

Conduction block: