ACCTG 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Migraine, Substance P, Nociceptor
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Functional, unpleasant sensation with survival benefits, to which the reflex action is to reduce the. Types of pain and prevalence: pain lasting < 3 to 6 months, pain generally disappears once tissue has healed, but can also be recurrent (migraine) Chronic: pain that lasts > 3 to 6 months, begins with episode of acute pain that does not improve, two types of pain. Prevalence: 18% of an australian community reported chronic pain, 5% with pain so severe that it interfered with activity, most frequent sources of pain injury, sports injury, and health problem". Five d"s (brena & chapman): resulting from people avoiding activities they deem as causing pain, others providing help, and the individual becoming more and more sedentary because of it: dramatisation of complaints. 1: disuse through inactivity, drug misuse as result of over-medication, dependency on others due to learned helplessness and impaired use of personal coping skills, disability due to inactivity. Specificity theory: pain receptors in the skin.
