PSYC 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Chronic Pain, Posterior Grey Column, Nociception

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2301
• Professor: Tarun Ahuja

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Chronic benign: not much you can do for treatment. Recurrent acute pain: short pain but keeps coming back. Chronic progressive: gets worse as it progresses. The first of these is making a catastrophe out of a situation. Measuring pain: 2 limping when you hurt your foot, 4 whatever you hurt you will avoid using it, pai(cid:374) is it"s a bp pro(cid:272)ess. If i hit you (cid:449)ith a s(cid:373)all ha(cid:373)(cid:373)er you"ll feel little pai(cid:374) a(cid:374)d if i hit you (cid:449)ith a (cid:271)igger ha(cid:373)(cid:373)er you"ll feel (cid:373)ore pai(cid:374: table 10. 2 slide 20 (write down) Phantom limb pain: when you suffer an injury where you lose part of your arm (ex) still have the shoulder and upper part of your arm. The arm and body and brain will still make it seem like there is an arm there. Sensory techniques massage, things that will help close the pain gate.