A client in an acute medicine unit of a hospital with a diagnosis of small bowel obstruction is ...

A client in an acute medicine unit of a hospital with a diagnosis of small bowel obstruction is complaining of intense, diffuse pain in her abdomen. Which of the following physiological phenomena is most likely contributing to her complaint?
 
  A)
  Nociceptive afferents are conducting the sensation of pain along the cranial and spinal nerve pathways of the ANS.
  B)
  First-order neurons are inappropriately signaling pain to the dorsal root ganglion.
  C)
  The client is experiencing neuropathic pain.
  D)
  The client's C fibers are conducting pain in the absence of damaged A fibers.