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In all of medicine there may be no bigger mystery than chronic, nonmalignant pain—especially to those of us who treat it. Pain usually serves a biological purpose, yet in chronic pain patients, pain symptoms seem to exist with little biologically useful purpose. We know that pain can be ignored by soldiers and first responders in crises, yet chronic pain improbably exists in limbs that are amputated or paralyzed. We know that pain that is considered debilitating in one culture can be barely acknowledged in another culture. And finally we know the same pain event that resolves in one patient can turn into chronic pain with its associated debilitating features in another.
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Vasudevan, S. (2015). Major Pain Theories and Factors Behind Chronic Pain. In: Multidisciplinary Management of Chronic Pain. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20322-5_3
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