Factors Affecting Pain
Medical diagnosis
What is biological?
Give an example of how pain motivates.
What is touching a hot stove causes you to remove your hand from the painful stimuli? Other examples may include: walking on a sprained ankle, or touching a spiky object.
Acute pain usually causes observable physiological responses such as this.
What is increased pulse? Or: respirations, blood pressure.
These effects of chronic pain include depression, anger, anxiety, and fear of reinjury.
What is emotional?
Childbirth
What is acute pain?
Spirituality
What is social?
These and generational norms affect how an individual expresses their pain.
What are cultural beliefs?
Acute pain can cause this, which is the medical term for excessive sweating.
What is diaphoresis?
Even after the original injury has resolved, chronic pain can do this.
What is continue?
Fibromyalgia
What is chronic pain?
Anxiety
What is psychological?
Pain can have adverse effects on function, socialization and this.
What is psychological well-being?
Two factors that separate acute pain from chronic pain are ______ and _____.
What are limited duration and association with a specific cause?
Chronic pain can impact daily functioning and affect these three types of responses for an individual.
What are psychological, social, and behavioral?
Appendectomy
What is acute pain?
Injury, past or present
What is biological?
Pain is always this that is influenced to varying degrees by the body’s ability to function, how the brain perceives pain, and even how pain has been reacted to or cared for by others in the past.
What is a personal experience?
True or false: Acute pain is ongoing and persistent for longer than six months.
What is false?
One of the other physical effects of chronic pain includes this.
What is tense muscles? Other possible answers include: limited ability to move around, lack of energy, and appetite or sleep changes.
Peripheral neuropathy
What is chronic pain?