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- "I've stopped telling my friends about my pain. Now I feel
alone all the time."
- "How can I get on with my life when this pain is with me everyday?"
Pain serves the purpose of keeping us from further injury however sometimes
pain loses its purpose. Pain from an old injury that persists beyond
the acute illness or when it would normally have healed is called chronic
pain. This pain is real and physiologically based. Psychological treatments
have proven useful for chronic pain. It has been hypothesized that chronic
pain is maintained by the fight/flight mechanism that continually keeps
the sympathetic nervous system in heightened arousal. Fibromyalgia and
Reflex Sympathetic Dsystrophy are examples of sympathetically maintained
chronic pain conditions.
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