PSYC 3170 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Opiate, Blind Experiment, Nociceptor
20 Sep 2017
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Managing and controlling clinical pain: clinical pain. Any pain that receives or requires professional care: acute clinical pain. Practitioners make medical procedures go more smoothly, reduce patients" stress and anxiety, and help them recover more quickly. Promotes survival when it serves as a warning of injury. It is recommended that practitioners assess patentees" pain intensity and satisfaction with pain relief after surgery: chronic clinical pain. Canadian females report more chronic pain overall, greater chronic pain intensity, and a higher incidence of chronic pain across all demographic groups examined. The prevalence of chronic pain is lowest for adolescents and young adults, but increases steadily as age increases. Half of people had considered suicide because of their chronic recurrent and chronic intractable benign pain. Chronic pain creates an array of long term psychosocial problems and impaired interrelationships, which distinguish its victims from those of acute pain: medical treatments for pain, surgical methods for treating pain.
