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We can't yet fully explain why chronic pain sometimes persists long after an injury has physically healed.

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Patients sometimes continue to experience pain months or years after the original injury has healed, suggesting the nervous system itself has changed in ways doctors don't fully understand. Solving this could transform treatment for chronic pain conditions.

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Citation ID: WS00479 Title: We can't yet fully explain why chronic pain sometimes persists long after an injury has physically healed. URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=479