Assessment- Case Study
Topic: Sensory system (Topic 1)
The following is a case study with four questions. You are required to respond to all four questions. Response to each question should not exceed 125 words and the length of the entire assignment is 500 words.
Assignments are due at midnight. Any assignment submitted after midnight NT time incurs a 10% penalty per working day i.e 10% penalty is incurred 5 minutes past midnight for every day it is late.
After five days (taken from midnight) the assignment receives a 'zero'.
Assignment- Case study.
Matthew and Vanessa are students. Their lecturer has just announced that the exam scheduled for the following week is quite difficult and so they should all ensure that they study well. Matthew and Vanessa decide to study together and discuss what they have already learned about the sensation of pain to assist each other's understanding. First, they form some general definitions and descriptions of the types of pain. Next, they spend some time chatting about the basic arrangement of the pain pathways, which travels along the three-neuronal pathway and connect to cerebral cortex. Matthew has a fairly good understanding of physiology of pain, while Vanessa can explain the evaluation and treatment of pain quite well.
Answer all four questions as though you were participating in the study session with Matthew and Vanessa.
1. Explain with the help of a diagram the basic arrangement of pain pathway.
2. Discuss what neuromodulators are and how they modulate the sensation of pain.
3. List the strategy for pharmacological management of pain
4. Describe the surgical treatments available for the management of chronic visceral pain.