SAR HP 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Opioid Epidemic, Autonomic Nervous System, Chronic Pain
28 Sep 2018
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Homework no longer due thursday, reflection after thursday"s class will be due next week. Pain is a major public health problem. 1/10 people have chronic pain greater than 1 year. 45% of americans seek care for persistent pain at some point in their lives. Joint pain, post surgical, traumatic, chronic diseases. Most commonly reported pain is low back pain, musculoskeletal pain, headaches, migraines. Iasp pain definition: pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage. Pain = normal response to what brain perceives as threat. Biopsychosocial: all 3 domains, emotional physical and biological, meds, therapy, rehab. Pain depends on how much danger your brain thinks you are in, not how much you are really in. Pain is one of many systems designed to get you out of trouble. Tissue damage and pain often do not relate. As pain persists the nervous system becomes better at producing pain.
