PSYC 3170 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Ronald Melzack, Chronic Pain, Phantom Limb
24 Apr 2012
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Pain is significant fro managing daily activities. Symptom to most likely have individuals seek treatment. It if fundamentally a psychological experience and the degree to which it is felt and how incapacitating it is depends in large part how it is interpreted. Pain is a substantial cultural component: members to some cultures report pain sooner and react more intensely than other individuals in other cultures. Verbal reports: darw on a large, informal vocabulary that people use for describing pain: mcgill pain questionnarie whetehr pain is throb shoot etc , pain catastrophizing scale full pic of dimension of the pain. Pain behaviours: are observable behaviours that arise as manifestations of chronic pain. Nociception (pain perception): that results from mechanical damage to the tissue of the bofy thermal damage: or the experience of pain due to temperature exposure. A-delta fibers: small myelienated fibers, transmit sharp pain.
