Chronic pain explained: central nervous system hypersensitization
Here is an excellent article that helps explain chronic pain. The central nervous system (CNS–brain and spinal cord) can become “hypersensitized” following an injury, trauma, and/or period of chronic or severe stress, in ways that perpetuate, exacerbate, or distort pain, both from any initial injury, but also from normally trivial or benign sensations, such as […]