PAIN SCIENCE INTRO EXAM 2025/2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
Acute pain pt implications - biomedical approach
Find and eliminate the physical cause of pain
Exercise, manual therapy, modalities
Chronic pain pt implications - biopsychosocial approach
Actively involve pt
Minimize passive treatments
Exercise and activity modification
Incorporate manual therapy and modalities only if a specific physical cause is identified
Hyperalgesia - increased response to a stimulus which is normally painful
Allodynia - pain due to a stimulus which does not normally provoke pain
Hypoalgesia - diminished pain in response to a normally painful stimulus
Dyesthesia - an unpleasant abnormal sensation, whether spontaneous or evoked
Neuropathic pain - pain initiated or caused by a primary lesion or dysfunction in the nervous
system
Pain threshold - the least experience of pain that a subject can recognize
Pain tolerance - greatest level of pain that a subject can tolerate
Pain behavior - pattern of audible actions, posture, facial expressions, verbalizations
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
Acute pain pt implications - biomedical approach
Find and eliminate the physical cause of pain
Exercise, manual therapy, modalities
Chronic pain pt implications - biopsychosocial approach
Actively involve pt
Minimize passive treatments
Exercise and activity modification
Incorporate manual therapy and modalities only if a specific physical cause is identified
Hyperalgesia - increased response to a stimulus which is normally painful
Allodynia - pain due to a stimulus which does not normally provoke pain
Hypoalgesia - diminished pain in response to a normally painful stimulus
Dyesthesia - an unpleasant abnormal sensation, whether spontaneous or evoked
Neuropathic pain - pain initiated or caused by a primary lesion or dysfunction in the nervous
system
Pain threshold - the least experience of pain that a subject can recognize
Pain tolerance - greatest level of pain that a subject can tolerate
Pain behavior - pattern of audible actions, posture, facial expressions, verbalizations
