Pain Management

Self-Study Examination

Instructions: After studying the text answer the following true/false or multiple choice questions. Remember, there's only one answer to each question.

1.	This type of pain can be made much worse by environmental and psychological factors:

a) chronic pain
b) acute pain

2.	Migraines occur more commonly in ______ and cluster headaches occur more commonly in ___________ .

a) smokers, alcoholics
b) women, men
c) men, adolescents
d) elderly, females

3.	This type of pain occurs after an outbreak of shingles:

a) acute neuropathy
b) central pain syndrome
c) postherpetic neuralgia
d) reflex sympathetic dystrophy

4.	The common cause of sciatica is:

a) exertion and strain
b) a herniated disc
c) nerve damage and entrapment
d) obesity and poor posture

5.	When blood supply to organs, tissues, or limbs is cut off, it is called:

a) central pain
b) stenosis
c) ischermia
d) thalamic pain

6.	Biofeedback is used to treat most notably:

a) osteoarthritis
b) cancer pain
c) headache and back pain
d) shingles and herpes simplex
e) sprains and strains

7.	Hypnosis has not been approved by the American Medical Association.

a) true
b) false

8.	This type of surgery is used for pain of terminal cancer, which does not respond to other therapies.

a) cordotomy
b) discectomy
c) laminectomy
d) spinal fusion
e) DREZ