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(Sensory Receptors)
Free Nerve Ending - what feeling do they communicate? |
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| Skin and connective tissues throughout the body. They communicate pain, temperature and light touch. |
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(Sensory Receptors)
Nociceptors - what feeling do they communicate? |
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(Sensory Receptors)
Sensitization - what causes it? |
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| Nerve pathways where repetitive stimulation from poor posture, memory, emotions and other forms of stress cause them to become stuck in a hypersensitive state of alert. The long-assed trauma remains an ongoing or imminent threat. These nerve ending are a common cause of chronic pain.Tissue damage can occur w/o pain, when impaired nerves fail to communicate signals, where the damage eludes the sensors. |
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(Sensory Receptors)
Proprioceptors - where are they and what do they communicate? |
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In deeper tissues like fascia, muscles, joint capsules, tendons and ligaments.
Communicate a broad range of input regarding position in space & the various loads placed on the muscular skeletal system. |
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(Sensory Receptors)
Pacinian Corpuscles - What feeling do they communicate? |
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| Vibration, brief pressure and distortion. |
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Pain from the major organs can be referred to skin and muscles that are innervated by the same spinal nerves.
True? |
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