Pain

Overview

• Defining pain
• Perception of pain
• Types of pain
• Approaches to management

What is pain

• Subjective

Why is pain important?

• impact

theories of pain

• Descartes

theories of pain

• neuromatrix

theories of pain

• gate control theory

Pain Perception

• Cognitive and emotional

Types of pain

• Acute

Social Communication Model of pain

• image

Acute vs chronic

When chronic pain becomes an issue

• Sheep tracks

Age and Pain

• Old thinking that older and younger people feel less pain than middle aged adults.

Gender and Pain

• Do women feel pain more?

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Culture and pain

• multifactorial

Attitudes and beliefs

• the way we think about something

Catastrophic thinking

• key signs and screening

pain related psychological distress

• some of the issues are

psychological approaches

• acute pain

chronic pain

• some things to help

explain pain

• education

explain

• language matters

resources

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