Chronic pain: mechanisms and treatment.
Chronic pain has been arbitrarily defined as any pain lasting for more than twelve weeks. Chronic pain has also been defined as pain that continues beyond the time in which recovery might usually be expected. This suggests that the cause of pain may change, as it evolves into chronic pain.
Priest
Timothy D
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Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull NHS Trust, Solihull Hospital, Lode Lane, B91 2JL, UK.
Hoggart
Barbara
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D000818:Animals; D002490:Central Nervous System / Q000503:physiopathology; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D010146:Pain / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D017933:Peripheral Nervous System / Q000503:physiopathology