PSYC 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Rheumatoid Arthritis, Diabetic Neuropathy, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
16 Dec 2017
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You have acute pain that could resolve itself or transition to chronic pain. All acute pain has possibility of turning into chronic pain. Back pain patients divided into two as when they waited for. 1 year, some patients had significant decrease in pain and for others pain significantly increased. In b, volume of grey matter in certain parts of the brain. Healthy individuals and patients who have decreasing pain have no change in grey matter but decreases in progressing group. People in chronic pain lose grey matter; this accompanies ageing. It kills your brain cells and this is disturbing. Different types of cancers have different pain prevalence rates. Many possibilities: tumor might be pressing on something, he tumor might be releasing something that causes pain, body"s attempt to fight off cancer can bring forth immune cells. Drugs that we give to cancer might cause pain/nerve damage/neuropathy.
