| A | B |
|---|
| Comfort | The absence of pain. |
| Parasthesia | An abnormal sensation such as tingling or ‘pins and needles’ that may be uncomfortable, but not truly painful. |
| Pain | An unpleasant feeling that may be associated with disease or trauma. |
| Analgesia | Absence or decreased pain response to stimulation that would normally be painful. |
| Chronic Pain | Is constant or intermittent pain that persists beyond the expected healing time and that can seldom be attributed to a specific cause or injury? |
| Acute Pain | Usually of recent onset and commonly associated with a specific injury, indicates that damage or injury has occurred. |
| Breakthrough Pain | A sudden and temporary increase in pain to a level greater than the client's well controlled baseline level. |
| Nonverbal responses to pain | Facial expression, moaning, groaning, crying, screaming Immobilization of the body or body part |
| Causative factors pain assessment question | What brings on the pain? What makes it worse? |
| Relieving factors pain assessment question | What helps to relieve or control the pain? |
| Pain-related problems assessment question | Does it cause any other problems such as nausea or insomnia? |
| Impact on activities of daily living (ADL’s) pain assessment question | Does it interfere with any activities, either home or at work? Is a change in lifestyle necessary |
| Pain location assessment question | Where is the pain? Does it radiate (move) to more than one site |
| Intensity pain assessment question | Refers to the magnitude or amount of pain perceived. How strong is the pain? Utilize a verbal or visual analogue scale to determine |
| Quality type pain assessment question | Refers to how pain feels to the client or words that describe the pain’s nature. Is it dull, sharp, aching, stabbing, burning, throbbing or pulsating? |
| Temporal pattern pain assessment question | Does it occur at any special time? How long does it last? Does it vary? |
| Pain onset assessment question | When did the pain begin? Was it sudden or gradual? Does it relate to any particular incident? |
