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Throbbing, burning, aching, stinging–the terms patients use to describe pain are often different because pain is personal and subjective and influenced by age, gender, race/ethnicity, and psychosocial factors. The International Association for the Study of Pain defines it as an unpleasant experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage to a person's body. There are two basic forms of physical pain: acute and chronic. Acute pain, for the most part, results from disease, inflammati... 
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While acute pain is a normal sensation triggered in the nervous system to alert you to possible injury and the need to take care of yourself, chronic pain is different. Chronic pain persists. Pain signals keep firing in the nervous system for weeks, months, even years. There may have been an initial mishap -- sprained back, serious infection, or there may be an ongoing cause of pain -- arthritis, cancer, ear infection, but some people suffer chronic pain in the absence of any past injury or evid...
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Pain as related to Chronic Pain
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- Chronic Pain history and information at MedicineNet.com
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- Understanding Chronic Pain
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Chronic Pain ... Chronic Pain Treatments Medication FAQs Links. Have a question about ... Pain is usually categorized as acute (less than one month in duration) or ...
- The Pain Truth: How and Why We Hurt | LiveScience
... know very little about how pain works. But they do know it's ... The American Chronic Pain Association. Medline, from the National Institutes of Health ...
- What is Chronic Pain? Translational Pain Research - Brigham and Women's ...
The Translational Pain Research Group conducts clinical trials to treat pain caused by a variety of medical conditions including spinal cord injury (SCI), diabetic ...
- Pain - acute pain, chronic pain - WebMD
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Chronic Pain: Low Back Pain ... Chronic Pain Treatments Medication FAQs Links ... The Causes of Chronic Low Back Pain and How It Can Be Diagnosed ...
- Chronic Pain -- All About Pain -- Doctors For Pain
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- Chronic Pain
In contrast, chronic nonmalignant pain (CNP) lasts at least 6 months and takes on a life of its ... physicians consider chronic pain to be an aggressive ...
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