KINESIOL 2G03 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Chronic Pain, Posterior Grey Column, Mechanoreceptor

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: KINESIOL 2G03
• Professor: Jennifer Heisz

Document Summary

Her hand and arm became really sore! If you brushed a feather on her arm she would be in pain! Pain that persists after healing has occurred! Neuropathic pain can be stimulus evoked or spontaneous! Chronic pain is very different from acute pain! For someone with chronic pain, the feather is as painful as a blowtorch! Unlike acute pain which causes us to attend to it, chronic pain has no advantage, it in itself is the disease! With acute pain (stubbed toe) your in pain, you pay attention to it, you don"t use it! Chronic pain can result in dysfunctional activity at different levels of the pain pathway! Thermal injury sensitizes nociceptors even after the are disappeared! Then they tested pain sensitivity around the injured areas! After they were burned there was in ammation, however it encompassed spots around the site of injury which also became sensitive! An area c off to the side was also affected!