The Science Behind Pain | Can Supplements Really Help?
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Acute Injury and Chronic Pain - The Biggest Distinguishing Factors
Nerves still are hypersensitive. This is where pain gets problematic too, because that's a nice protective factor. When the injury is gone and you're no longer in danger, but now you have this lasting plastic change. The cells arerounded, the nerve endings, they all change and become more sensitive to pain,. If it stays like that for years, then you have chronic pain. So getting all of that in that acute stage, then also keeping that pain there even after that acute actual pain is gone. Why does that pain persist? There is no active injury now going on. I'm not re injuring it. There shouldn't be pain. Y cab.
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