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Pain Pathways
Dr Sameer Gupta
Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Management, NGH
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Objective
• To give you a simplistic and basic concepts of pain pathways to help understand the complex issue of pain
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Pain Definition
• Unpleasant SENSORY and EMOTIONAL experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage
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Pain
Is having pain Any good ?
– Evolutionary process.
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Physiological Effects of acute
pain
• Positive role:
• warning of tissue damage
• immobilization for healing
• protection of the species: establishment of memory
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Pain Physiological responses
Affect
–HR, BP, RR, GIT
–Learned Behaviour response
–Memory
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Classification of Pain
• Acute Pain : Post operative Pain, non surgical cause
• Cancer Pain :Palliative Care
• Chronic Non Cancer Pain –Visceral Pain –Musculoskeletal pain
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Classification of Pain
• Nociceptive: inflammatory
• Neuropathic: nerve related
• Mixed
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First attempts (cancer pain)
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Acute Pain
• Generally last less than a week
• Results from activation of sensory nerve fibres called nociceptors
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Pain Pathways (nociceptors)
Myelinated A delta Fibres
Unmeyelinated C afferent fibres
Location: most body tissues except brain, liver
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Pain
• Experience of pain is a complex mix of activation of different afferent fibre types
• Eg A-beta fibres
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First attempts 1664 Descartes,
Pain a specific sensation
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Pain Pathway
Stimulus Nociceptors Spinal Cord, Modulation happens
Perception
Brain Experience,
learned
behaviour
Memory
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Alternatively
• Sensors and conduction: Stimulus and nociceptive receptors
• Central Processing and modulation: Spinal cord and Brain
• Effectors: behaviour, reaction, emotions
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Stimulus
• Noxious Stimulus
–Mechanical
–Thermal
–chemical
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Tissue Injury
Cyclooxygenase (Cox)
Phospolipase A2
Break down of membrane lipids
Arachidonic Acid
Prostaglandins
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Products of Arachidonic Acids
• Act directly on the nociceptors ( peripheral terminals of Aδ and c fibre) and lower their threshold to thermal stimuli.
• Results: a sensation of burning at room temperature
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Nerve Fibres Transmitting Pain
• C Fibres: unmyelinated fibres, Characterised by diffuse dull intense pain
• A Delta Fibres: small myelinated fibres conduct localised sharp sensation
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Noxious Stimulus
Excitatory Neurotransmitters
Eg Glutamate
Ascending pathw ay
Cortical Areas
Somatosensory
cortex
Prefrontal cortex Thalamus
PAG
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At the level of spinal cord
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Experience of pain
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Wind Up (Central Facilitation)
• Poorly understood, ? Clinical relevance in pain
• Mediated via C fibres
• Repeated frequency dependent stimulation ( usually electrical stimulus) results in increase in amplitude of the neurons in the spinal cord.
• Possibly a role of NMDA receptors and substance P
• May result in central sensitisation
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Are there any safeguards or
protection ?
• Mechanisms
• Descending Pathways
• Gate control Theory
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Noxious Stimulus
Excitatory Neurotransmitters
Eg Glutamate
Central Processing
Past experiences, Mood,
Memory, other sensory inputs
Ascending pathw ay Descending pathways
Modulation
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Gate control theory
• Balance of activity between large and small fibres
• Interneurons of the substansia gelatinosa regulate the input in Lamina V
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Gate control theory
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Gate control Theory
• Aβ Fibres Dorsal Horn Spinal Cord Brain
Nociceptive
Stimulus
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Gate control Theory
Aβ Fibres Dorsal Horn Spinal Cord Brain
Nociceptive
Stimulus
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What does that mean?
• Low intensity stimulation of the skin or peripheral nerves or vibration will generate analgesia
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Is there any practical application of
this theory
• Rubbing, application of heat , counter
irritation creams
• TENS ( trans cutaneous nerve stimulation)
• Spinal Cord Stimulation
• Possibly Acupuncture
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Descending Pathways
• Modulation of gate control are influenced by Higher Centre inputs
• Higher centre inputs are modulated by various neurotransmitters
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Noxious Stimulus
Excitatory Neurotransmitters
Eg Glutamate
Central Processing
Past experiences, Mood,
Memory, other sensory inputs
Ascending pathw ay Descending pathways
Modulation
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Endogenous Pain Control
System
Role of Higher Centres
• Peri Aque-ductal Grey, Locus Cerulus
– Key role
– Inhibits the firing of the dorsal horn neuron that respond to noxious stimulus (gate control theory).
– Changing the levels of neurotransmitters at the level of synapses
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Basis of Pharmacological
treatment of some pain Reducing Excitatory Neurotransmitters
and excitation of the nerve (with respect to pain transmission)
Basis for using anti epileptics, Local Anaesthetics (Na channel blockade)
Enhancing Inhibitory
Neurotransmitters
Noradrenaline and Serotonin
Basis for using Anti depressants
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Endogenous Pain Control System
• Opioids Receptors
• High concentrations of Opioid receptors in Spinal cord and Brain
• Body produce endogenous opioids
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Endogenous opioids peptides
• Enkephalin
• Dynorphine
• Beta endorphine: effects similar to morphine
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endorphines
Released in the presence of pain
Practical utilities
1) acupuncture: bearable pain
2) Placebo
3) Psychological modulation of pain
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knowing pathway helped in controlling pain?
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Medication
Prostaglandins act directly on the nociceptors reduces there threshold and normal stimuli can activate these producing a sensation of pain (peripheral sensitization)
– NSAIDS and possibly Paracetamol utitlises this
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Medications
• Opioids: morphine
• Local anaesthetic: block conduction of the nerve
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Definition Chronic Pain Ongoing persistent pain greater than 3-6 months
“pain experience persists beyond the usual course of an acute disease”
or
“after healing/cure has taken place”
or
“recurs at intervals for months or years”
or
“due to persisting stimulation in areas of ongoing tissue damage”
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Chronic Pain
serves no useful biological function, but has profound effects on the patient and their family
Physical : Immobility
Emotional: distress
social : little social interaction/ isolation
economical : job issues
Day to day activity is severely affected.
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Pain presentation
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Treatment
consist of therapies aimed at all these areas and not focused to one particular area
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Chronic Pain
Principles of Treatment
Improve Pain Perception
Improve Function / Mobility
Improve Sleep
Improve Emotional and Psychological Consequences of Pain
IMPROVE QUALITY OF LIFE
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