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The Pain Matrix (Word doc) asks you to fill in the missing components. You may find it useful to use this matrix as a guide while viewing the mini-lecture for this week. The types of pain have been listed for you, and you will be asked to provide information about the location or cause of the pain, potential stimuli for the type of pain, as well as information about the characteristics of the pain type. Finally, you will be asked to provide examples for this type of pain. These may come from the lecture, your reading, or any source you find useful.
After completing the matrix, you should summarize the information organized within the matrix in a single paragraph (no longer than 0.5 page).
Type of pain |
Subtype of: |
Location of nociceptor / cause |
Potential stimuli |
Localization |
Quality |
Signs/Symptoms |
Examples |
Treatment |
Somatic: superficial |
Sensitivity, tenderness |
NSAIDs, Opioids, Local anesthesia |
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Somatic: deep |
Tenderness, spasms |
NSAIDs, Opioids, regional anesthesia |
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Visceral |
Nausea, vomiting, sweating, tenderness, spasm |
NSAIDs, Opioids, regional anesthesia |
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Neuropathy |
Sensitivity of skin |
Opioids, adjuvants |
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Deafferentiation |
Dysthesia (abnormal sensation) |
Opioids, adjuvants |
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Sympathetic/Phantom |
Allodynia (painful response to normal stimuli) |
Opioids, adjuvants |
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Central |
Sensory loss |
Opioids, adjuvants |