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Referred Pain
Referred Pain
1- It
receives the following sensations:
2- Fine touch sensations (T.L.– T.D. –
Stereognosis – Texture of material).
3- Discrimination of weight.
4- Vibration sense.
5- Discrimination of various grades of
temperature.
Somatic Sensory Area I(SI):
It lies in the postcentral gyrus immediately behind
the central sulcus in the parietal lobe.
• It is characterized by:
• It receives sensations from the opposite side of
the body i.e. crossed representation.
• The body is represented in an inverted manner.
The head is represented in the lower part of
postcentral gyrus, while the area of the leg lies in
the upper part of the sensory area.
• The area of representation of each part is
proportional to the number of receptors in this
part, not to size.
Somatic Sensory Area II (SII):
• It is a small area that lies posterior and inferior
to the lower end of postcentral gyrus.
• Body representation:
Bilateral representation with poor topographic
representation.
The head area is gradually in the anterior part
and the leg area is in the posterior.
• Functions:
– SII is a potentiator to SI.
- It cannot work independent of S1.