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
More 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.comUnfortunately, 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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