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| What are the components of pain? |
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| Sensory, chronic, acute, and reactionary. |
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| What is reactionary pain? |
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| The emotional response of pain that comes from the CNS. The pain stimulus comes from the PNS. |
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| The actual pain stimulus. |
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Sharp, localized pain that subsides quickly with little emotional response.
Ex: Needle jab. |
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| Slow onset with longer duration after a period of tissue damage, less localized, large emotional component, and associated with autonomic responses like increased respiration and cardiovascular function. |
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| Describe visceral (deep) pain. |
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Aching, poorly localized pain associated with referred pain.
Ex: Pain in maxillary sinus (referred pain from max molars). |
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| Describe nociceptice orofacial pain. |
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| Normal pain response to injury to the body. Dull, achy pain not lasting long. |
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| Describe neuropathic orofacial pain. |
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Definition
| Doesn't serve any biologic function, socially and psychologically destructive, leads to depression, persistant sharp stabbing pain, doesn't involve stimulation of receptors like nociceptive pain. |
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| How do you treat neuropathic orofacial pain? |
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Definition
| With tricyclic antidepressants, analgesics, and anticonvulsants. |
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| Give examples of nociceptive acute pain. |
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Definition
| Toothache, dental surgery, mucosal lesions, and arthritis. |
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| Give examples of neuropathic chronic pain. |
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| Trigeminal neuralgia, migraines, fibromyalgia, and dysesthesia. |
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| In allergic reactions, leukotrienes produce what effect? |
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