Pain quiz

Pain can be described in terms of how it feels - what component of pain is this?

• Sensory

• Affective

• Autonomic

• Motor

Difference between Transient and Acute pain

Groups:

(a) Transient

,

(b) Acute

• Rarely results in healthcare seeking

• Ubiquitous with everyday life

• Medical intervention can facilitate healing process

• Report of pain ceases before healing is complete

• Substantial injury of body tissue

• Can be inflicted in experimental pain studies

• Usually located to site of tissue damage

• No tissue damage

Pain which serves no useful purpose, requires medical attention and can be described as an acute pain episode that does not resolve can be described as _______ pain.

True or False the first theory of pain was described by Albert Einstein - The sensation or Intensity Theory

• True

• False

One of the most famous theories on ​ (a)   was proposed by Melzack & Wall called the ​ (b)   ​ (c)   ​ (d)  

• pain
• gate
• control
• theory
• sensation
• threshold
• perception
• fence

In the gate control theory what is the gate?

• pain receptor cell

• A transmission cell

• An inhibitory neuron

Which of the following critiques has been levelled at the gate control theory?

• Largely physiological model

• Does not account for phantom pain

• Psychological component 'tagged on'

• All of these