PSY3130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Group C Nerve Fiber, Myofascial Pain Syndrome, Malignancy
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Pain sensory and emotion experience of discomfort actual/threatened tissue damage/irritation. Pain = normal, necessary protective function motivates us to take action. Psychogenic pain most from psychological processes doesn"t mean pain isn"t real. Continuum model of pain all pain is made up of physiological and psychological processes somatic symptom disorder long term pain - part of excessive concerns for physical symptoms/health medically unexplained two types of pain acute pain, chronic pain. Acute pain designed to protect and take action1 short lived, time limited exaggerrated pain anxiety - higher than normal, then subsides as pain decreases. Longer than 3 months no obvious function not responsive to medical treatment may not have obvious pathology high levels of anxiety - continue. 1 in 5 people suffer chronic pain (aus) 4 million annual cost for chronic pain (aus) Types of chronic pain: chronic recurrent pain, chronic intractable benign pain, chronic progressive pain.