Health Assessment: Pain Assessment (Test Bank) Questions And Answers 100% Verified A+ Guaranteed

A patient who had an amputation of his lower leg comes to the clinic with a complaint of pain. He asks, "How I can be feeling pain in my foot—my foot is gone!" What is the appropriate response from the nurse? a. "After your amputation, pain perception increases." b. "Amputating your leg caused abnormal processing of sensory input by the peripheral nervous system." c. "Stimulation of nerves from your leg sends impulses to the brain so that you feel pain even though your leg is no longer there." d. "When sensory nerves enter the spinal cord, they stimulate nerves from unaffected organs in the same spinal cord segment as those neurons in areas where injury or disease is located." {Ans: ANS: C Feedback: A "After your amputation, pain perception increases" is a definition of pain threshold. B "Amputating your leg caused abnormal processing of sensory input by the peripheral nervous system" is a definition of neuropathic pain. C "Stimulation of nerves from your leg sends impulses to the brain so that you feel pain even though your leg is no longer there" is a definition of phantom pain. D "When sensory nerves enter the spinal cord, they stimulate nerves