NUR 3100 Lecture 16: SI -- Pain, CNS, CV, Circulation
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Pain disorders: pain is ___subjective; it is whatever your patient says it is_____________, stimulus > nociceptor > a/c fiber + tract stimulation > somatosensory cortex. Tingling or electric pain: unrelieved pain, has a purpose activated autonomic nervous system. Continuous pain with irritability, depression, insomnia, psychosocial withdrawal: sensation of pain in an cramping, shooting pain, bone, muscles, tendons, joints, blood vessels. Localized pain: nerve root pain at cranial amputated limb burning, nerve 5 facial tics, Very sensitive caused by grimacing, stabbing feeling: deep, diffuse, referred pain. distention, contractions and ischemia, ways to relieve pain: relaxation, massage, sometimes exercise, heat/cool compresses, physical therapy, splint/brace extremity, relieve anxiety, chiropractor (for bone injury). Neuromuscular disorders: muscular dystrophy: a muscle fiber degeneration. _necrosis____________ replaces muscle with adipose tissue and fibrous tissue. Wheelchair dependent, cardiomyopathy (heart enlargement), kyphoscoliosis (spine is twisted and humpback), postural defects: myasthenia gravis: defect in nerve impulse. _ptosis____________ (eyelid weakness) progresses to difficulty swallowing and resp. problems.
