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Pain - Coggle Diagram
Pain
Symptoms
Chronic pain: Loss of appetite, depression, and sleeping issues, withdrawn personality, less strength in relationships, decreased libido, client may be very irritable
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Burning, aching and other abnormal sensations
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Acute Pain (DRY SYMPTOMS): increase in heart rate, increased stroke volume, increased blood pressure, increased tension, decreased GI motility, decreased saliva.
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Neuropathic pain: severe throbbing, lightning like pain in spinal or cranial nerve
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Labs/Diagnostics
Location, radiates, duration, aggravating and alleviating factors, and intensity of the pain.
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Collaborative Care
Pharmacological: Analgesics, aggressive pain medication for cute pain, narcotic medications, electrical modalities, neural blockade,
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Therapist: Talk about pain and how it is affecting them psychologically and about their mental well-being. Talk about ways to cope including relaxation techniques, diversion, guided imagery.
Physical agents such as hot and cold therapy. We need to be careful with heat though because it can cause tissue damage.
Complications
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Acute Pain: Altered circulation, tissue metabolism, and increase in sympathetic responses.
Failure to treat the acute pain can lead to dyspnea, immobility, and impaired healing.
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Risk Factors
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Health conditions such as musculoskeletal, surgery, trauma, cancer, visceral, neuropathic pain, hyperalgesia, migraines
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Pathophysiology
Noxious stimuli, or tissue damage in the body, will send a message to the nociceptor which is a sensory receptor for painful stimuli. This causes the body to withdraw from the painful stimuli. Pain can be exacerbated depending on how the brain processes the pain signals.