PSYC 3170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Chronic Pain, Temporomandibular Joint, Pain Management
17 Nov 2016
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Promotes survival when it serves as a warning of injury. -- the thing that warns and promotes our survival. much of learning that something is wrong. but much of the acute pain people experience in today"s world has little survival value. Chronic pain usually begins as an acute episode but does not decrease with the passage of time. -- chronic pains are acute that never went away just progressed overtime. They have a lot of other issues surrounding such as unable to function in daily lives. When pain persists and becomes chronic, patients begin to perceive its nature differently. Recurrent acute pain- like athletic injuries and they had acute pain that comes and goes. Signaling that"s where the problem / injury is. Chronic progressive pain- individuals have a progressive path for experiencing more and more symptoms overtime. Acute and chronic pain present different psychological profiles. Chronic pain patients develop maladaptive coping strategies.
