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- Title
Central pain states: a shift in thinking about chronic pain.
- Authors
HARRIS, RICHARD E.
- Abstract
The article offers information related to central pain such as types of chronic pain, the role of stress and depression in pain, and studies on fibromyalgia. It says that pain acts as a warning over an emerging tissue damage. It mentions several types of chronic pain including knee and hip pain, diabetic neuropathy, and stroke. It adds that fibromyalgia is said to be the prototypical central pain disorder wherein pain develops in the central nervous system.
- Subjects
CENTRAL pain; CHRONIC pain; FIBROMYALGIA; MENTAL depression; PHYSIOLOGICAL stress; DIABETIC neuropathies; CEREBROVASCULAR disease; PHYSIOLOGY; NUTRITION
- Publication
Journal of Family Practice, 2011, Vol 60, pS37
- ISSN
0094-3509
- Publication type
Article