GE CLST 73A Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, Phantom Limb, Fibromyalgia

• School: UCLA
• Department: General Education Clusters
• Course: GE CLST 73A
• Professor: Chandler, S.H.

Document Summary

There are specific pain receptors in your skin. Two types of pain fibers, myielinated and one un myeilenated. One travels faster than another (gap of seconds) Experiments done by cornell in late 40s ear;y 50s. Measured pain in jnd (just noticeable difference) , patients almost always reported the same jnd . this is normal pain. If one person breaks their arm and reports a nukber of say 5. Jnds, another person who broke their arm the same way should report the same number of jnds. On people with pain conditions, the pain they perceive makes no sense, it doesn"t follow the normal pattern of feeling pain. *johannes muller cenethisis the organisms ability to perceive and interpret pain correctly. Lesionless pain 1800-1914 : (we don"t understand why pain is occurring and why its so strong or why its causing pain) migranes, chronic back pains, fibromyalgia. It was pain that couldn"t be explained by illness or injury.