Pain research is so important to discover new ways to manage Chronic Pain
“One of the features that we see in many patients with chronic pain is that they have this generalised pain hypersensitivity. They might have osteoarthritis and pain in their knee, but if you quantitatively assess the sensitivity of the pain system, they have a lower lower pain threshold throughout their bodies,” Arendt-Nielsen, immediate past president of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) and director of the world’s largest translational pain research centre at Aalborg University in Denmark, says.“This reorganisation of the pain system is the reason why management of chronic pain is difficult, and traditional analgesics are not efficient – and why pain research is so important to discover new ways to modulate this pain reorganisation.”
....It may also help explain why so many people with chronic pain conditions subsequently develop more of them. More than 200 million people around the world are affected by chronic overlapping pain conditions – a cluster of painful disorders which often coexist in the same patient.
“Over the past 10 years, there’s been the widespread recognition that pain can be a disease in and of itself, and a growing understanding that it is a multi-system illness, and that there are shared mechanisms of disease across these conditions,” says Christin Veasley co-founder and director of the US-based Chronic Pain Research Alliance.
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