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Autonomic discharge
Term used to describe sympathetic nervous system-mediated autonomic
phenomena, such as fasciculation, tremor, shaking, tears, eye fluttering, skin
colour changes, sweating, clamminess, and emotional responses such as:
laughing, crying, expression of anger, irritation or aggression that can be
triggered during panic and anxiety attacks, when under stress and sometimes
during massage therapy treatments especially when a somatic memory occurs.
Autonomic discharge can occur as a local or multisystem event.
Autonomic nervous system (ANS)
Mediates involuntary function of viscera, glands, smooth muscle, cardiac muscle
and other structures. The ANS is subdivided into the parasympathetic (PSNS)
and sympathetic nervous (SNS) systems.
Axillary web syndrome (AWS)
Also known as cording, is characterized by painful cording or strings of
hardened lymph tissue in the axilla and can extend down the arm or into the
chest wall. AWS is thought to be fibrosis of the fascial sheath surrounding lymph
vessels and is likely triggered by axillary node dissection and subsequent
disruption of lymphatic flow or physical insult of the tissue during the surgical
procedure.