A built-in ‘off switch’ to stop persistent pain | Penn Today
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J. Nicholas Betley has led collaborative research seeking the neural basis of long-term sustained pain and finds that a critical hub in the brainstem holds a mechanism for stopping pain signals from reaching the rest of the brain. Their findings could help clinicians better understand chronic pain and lead to new, more efficacious treatments.
  • whiwake@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    13 hours ago

    Yeah but if you kill the pain on something that is chronic but gets worse if you move wrong, then you’ll end up making things worse in the long run because you don’t know you’re hurting yourself.