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Chronic pain after trauma may depend on what stress gene variation you carry

  • Written by Sarah Linnstaedt, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chronic pain after trauma may depend on what stress gene variation you carryMore than 100 million American suffer from chronic pain -- in which pain signals continue in the nervous system for weeks, months, or even years. pathdoc/Shutterstock.com

Unfortunately, almost every individual in the world will experience at least one traumatic event, such as a car crash, assault, exposure to war combat or a natural disaster during...

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