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Summary Biopsychosocial Approach to Pain Management
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- Medicine
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- Queens University Belfast (QUB)
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Biopsychosocial Approach to Pain ManagementWhat is Pain
Feedback from the body
A warning sign
Results in protective behaviour
Triggers help-seeking behaviour
Has psychological consequences
Acute versus chronic
Some pain has no obvious function
Sensation vs Perception
Early models of pain viewed pain as a direct response to a stimulus
o Pain as a sensation caused by tissue damage
o Pain as an automatic response to an external stimulus
o No role for psychology as a causal influence. Only anxiety/ fear as a response
But models can't account for
o Differential response to medical treatments, especially for chronic pain
o Individual differences in responses to same degree of tissue damage
o Phantom limb pain
The Gate Control Theory of Pain
Introduced a role for psychological processes
Pain depends upon the relative amounts of traffic in 2 different sensory pathways which
carry information from sense organs to the brain
Pain as perception
o The individual actively interprets and appraises painful stimuli
o A multidimensional process whereby many factor can act to open/ close the gate
o Opens the gate
Injury
Anxiety
Attending to the pain
o Closes the gate
Analgesia
Counter stimulation
Distraction
Relaxation
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