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Ponencia de Arturo Such para el #HandFun celebrado en Begues el 23 de septiembre de 2012. Titulada: Assessing cortical changes in patients with painTRANSCRIPT
Assessing cortical changes in patients with pain
Pain
Pain is the cortical output of highest priority.
1- Pain is an output of the brain that is produced whenever the brain concludes that body tissues is in danger and action is required.
2- Pain is a multisystem output that is produced when an individual-specific cortical pain neuromatrix is activated.
Pain the defender, not the ofender
Moseley, 2003
Moseley, 2003
Sicuteri, 1992
Pain
1. Pain does not provide a measure of the state of the tissues
2. Pain is modulated by many factors: somatic, psychological and social
3. Relationship between pain and the state of the tissues is less predictable as pain persist
4. Conscious correlate of the implicit perception that tissue is in danger. Moseley, 2007
Nervous System
- Predictor, creator of experiences (Bayes)- Dynamic, not static
Changes in the Nervous System
· Peripheral and central changes
· Sensitization: Nonassociative learning. Repeated or extended application of a stimulus leads to an increase response. LTP (memory mechanisms)
·Disinhibition (impresicion) - Increase in RF
· Adaptative or maladaptative
Flor, 2012
Ji, 2003
Woolf CJ, 2004
Assessment
Subjective examinationSensory examinationMotor examination
Autonomic examination
MAKE THE FEATURES FIT
“Without identification of the mechanisms, the optimum treatment strategy for the patient´s pain cannot be selected”
Woolf & Mannion, 1999,
Clinical Assessment
Sensory Examination
Skin sensation: Light touchSuperficial painHot and coldDeep sensation:PainPropioceptionVibration
Motor Examination
Observation: Muscle wastingStrength testsFunctional testsReflexes:Stretch reflexesSkin reflexesCNS reflexes
Autonomic Exam
Observation: SkinHorner´s syndrome
Butler 2000
Sensory Examination
• Light touch:• Light touch (Semmes-Weinstein filament) - Fibres Aβ - Aα• Superficial pain: Aδ - C• Hot and Cold: Aδ - C
• Profound sensation:• Pain• Propioception• Vibration
• Cortical changes: Movement dystonia• Graphoesthesia• Finger identification• Stereognosia• TPD
Peripheral/central sensitization
WAD patientsFibromyalgia
Banic B. et al. Pain 2004
Treatment
Subjective examination: yellow flags
Beliefs that pain equals injuryFear avoidance-behaviorChanges in social interaccion. Mood changesExpectations on passive treatments
Affective component:
Suffering, description as negation of
live...
Treatment: Explain pain:
biologic explanationGraded exposure (activation)
Treatment
Treatment
Treatment
Treatment
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Distraction
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Sensitization - Changes in RF
Cortical Reorganization in CRPS
Marinus 2011
Cortical Reorganization in Phantom Limb
Flor H 2002
Changes in TPD in CLBP patiens
Moseley 2008
Treatment sensitivity cortical changes
Moseley 2008
Treatment sensitivity cortical changes
Short Term Long Term
Moseley, 2009
Treatment sensitivity cortical changes
Moseley 2009
Changes in peripersonal space
• Peripersonal space in CRPS
• Peripersonal space in Knee Osteoarthrosis Pain
• Assessment: recognise, TOJ
Stanton, 2012
Moseley 2009
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Motor Control
Treatment motor cortical changes•Graded Motor Imagery
• Laterality• Imagery• Mirror Therapy
•Correction of somatosensation?
Treatment
Treatment
Graded Exposure
Motor:DistractionPacing
Somatosensory:GazeMirrorBrush
Motor:Confrontation
Somatosensory:Gaze
No mirrorBrush
Distraction
Atention needed!!!
Is it possible that the physical examination, with its exhaustive and often repetitive provocation of specific joints, with specific mobilisations, which require the patient to carefully attend to and discriminate the location, quality and intensity of the percept works via similar mechanisms to discrimination training?
Is it possible that learning precise and sometimes subtle motor skills, which require the patient to attend carefully to specific body parts and to discrimi- nate the contraction of one muscle from the contraction of its immediate neighbour, has a similar effect?
Moseley 2008
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