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Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Princess on the Pea - Mechanisms of Chronic Pain - YouTube
Today we have a pretty good knowledge of the mechanisms behind chronic pain. This is a presentation of the basic understanding of how chronic pain starts, what causes it and why we most often are not able to see it on x-ray, MRI or other diagnostic procedures despite the fact that the patient are experiencing pain. We comes around allodynia, hyperalgesia, sensitization regulatory pathways and influence of sleep, depression and much more.