China hides Covid data, the problem with pain
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The Importance of Evidence for Pain Medicine
The best evidence for these treatments would be in a subset of chronic pain patients who've got neuropathic pain. But even in those populations, you'd need to treat between four and seven people for one person to report notably improved pain. And that won't necessarily last for life because the body develops tolerance to it. The message coming through loud and clear here is that chronic pain is not amenable easily to reaching for a packet of pills like a headache.
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