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Question 31

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The most frequently used portion of the McGill Pain Questionnaire is the

A) front and back drawings of the human body
B) pain-rating index
C) verbal rating scales
D) present pain intensity score
E) part 3 indicating how patients' pain has changed with time

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Question 32

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Peripherally acting analgesics decrease pain by

A) binding to opiate receptor sites
B) reducing inflammation at the site of tissue damage
C) distracting the patient with hallucinations
D) imitating the effects of the body's endogenous system
E) stimulating the central control trigger

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Question 33

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All of the following are key issues surrounding gender differences and pain except

Guided imagery is classified as

Pain rating scales are primarily used to measure

______________________ pain occurs in response to tissue damage whereas _____________ pain is reinforced by the person's environment.

During an electroencephalogram the peaks on the graph ______________ when people take analgesics and correlate ______________ with subjective reports of pain.

According to Melzack and Wall,relaxation or positive experiences can ____________ the pain experience by causing the gate to _______________

Reynolds provided electrical stimulation to the periaqueductal gray area of the midbrain in rats and produced:

Amal was raking leaves in her backyard.She has arthritis and her shoulder became painful soon after she started.She continued working for twenty minutes.The time from when she noticed the pain until she stopped is known as

In the David Reynolds study of rats' brain stems,the area of the midbrain that is involved in pain reception was the

All of the following are considered benefits to experiencing pain except

According to the McGill Pain Questionnaire,sensory qualities of pain include all of the following except

All of the following are true about phantom limbs except

An added benefit to the use of hypnosis in treating pain is that patients

One advantage of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation is that it can be

Sensory aspects of pain are influenced by the _____________ which send messages to the thalamus while motivational elements of pain are determined by ___________.

All of the following are methods that can be used in pain management to increase the relaxation response except:

Distraction techniques are particularly useful for reducing

When a persons' sensory system detects a stimulus,such as pressure on one's heel,the signal to the brain produces an increase in