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Living With Chronic Nerve Pain
What Can Be Done For Nerve Pain
The experience of nerve pain is described with a variety of terms: burning, hot poker, itching, tingling, lightening, shooting, electrical, and so on. In medical terms, words like hyperalgesia and allodynia are used. Hyperalgesia means that an area is overly sensitive to painful (noxious) stimuli like a pinprick. Allodynia means that an area is overly sensitive to normally non-painful (non-noxious) stimuli like light touch. Both of these phenomena are hallmarks for nerve pain.
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Neurogenic Pain: Can it be treated with Epidural Steroid Injections?
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...acute neuropathies begin suddenly and worsen rapidly. Damaged nerves heal slowly. Initial symptoms of chronic neuropathies are subtle. These conditions progress slowly and may remain unchanged for... Read more »Scoliosis: Prognosis
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