Stress Response And Health Breakdown

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Amanda Higginbottom
Assessment 2: Short answer essay- Betty
Due 14th February 2016

Part A
Pain is recognised as a stressor and therefore initiates a stress response. Betty is experiencing multiple potential causes of pain including nociceptive visceral and somatic pain. Each type of pain travels via a specific pain pathway, initiating processes in which her pain will act as a stressor. Timely and appropriate treatment of pain is essential as unrelieved pain can heighten the response of stress axis.
Chest pain is caused by numerous clinical conditions. ACS is inclusive of unstable angina, non- ST-segment myocardial infarction and ST- segment elevation myocardial infarction (Linden 2013). This category of chest pain is identified as acute pain due to its overall duration of less than a three month period (Briggs, E 2010). Chest pain as stimuli for noxious receptors, therefore ACS is furthermore classified as nociceptive visceral pain (Marieb & Hoehn 2013). Pain from the heart muscle can be referred to other areas, sensations from a body part such as the arm travel the same pathway as noxious stimuli, this is known as referred pain (ACN 2016, p19). …show more content…

These conditions similarly to ACS may be potential causes of Betty’s chest pain. Betty has known peripheral vascular disease (PVD) and cellulitis. They are both nociceptive somatic pain. Somatic pain associated with cellulitis originate from the skins surface and underlying tissues (DeWit & Kumargi

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