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Table 4 Neurophysiology of Pain Questionnaire (NPQ)

From: Attitudes and beliefs about musculoskeletal pain and its association with pain neuroscience knowledge among physiotherapy students in Israel

  

True

False

Undecided

1

Receptors on nerves work by opening ion channels (gates) in the wall of the nerve

   

2

When part of your body is injured, special pain receptors convey the pain message to your brain.

   

3

Pain only occurs when you are injured.

   

4

The timing and intensity of pain matches the timing and number of signals in nociceptors (dangerreceptors)

   

5

Nerves have to connect a body part to your brain in order for that body part to be in pain

   

6

In chronic pain, the central nervous system becomes more sensitive to nociception (dangermessages)

   

7

The body tells the brain when it is in pain

   

8

The brain sends messages down your spinal cord that can increase the nociception (danger message) going up your spinal cord.

   

9

The brain decides when you will experience pain

   

10

Nerves adapt by increasing their resting level of excitement.

   

11

Chronic pain means that an injury hasn’t healed properly.

   

12

Nerves can adapt by making more ion channels (gates)

   

13

Worse injuries always result in worse pain

   

14

Nerves adapt by making ion channels (gates) stay open longer

   

15

Second-order nociceptor (messenger nerve) post-synaptic membrane potential is dependent on descending modulation

   

16

When you are injured, the environment that you are in will not have an effect on the amount of pain you experience.

   

17

It is possible to have pain and not know about it.

   

18

When you are injured, chemicals in your tissue can make nerves more sensitive

   

19

In chronic pain, chemicals associated with stress can directly activate nociception pathways (dangermessenger nerves).