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Chronic pain: mechanisms and treatment
Timothy D Priest1, Barbara Hoggart
1Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull NHS Trust, Solihull Hospital, Lode Lane, B91 2JL, UK.
Current Opinion in Pharmacology
|May 22, 2002
Abstract:
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.