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About the pain

In medicine, a distinction is generally between acute and chronic pain. Acute pain occurs when tissue is damaged. Hold only a certain
Time and signal and protective pain - a warning sign of physical disturbance, which is reported to the brain.

Chronic pain, however, have been replaced by the original function and exist independently. Sometimes, chronic pain          no longer relate to the underlying disease.

The most common forms of chronic pain are back pain, headache, rheumatic pain, neural, pain, cancer pain and degenerative. Causes may occur, for example, nerve injury, muscle tension, viruses, stress or psychological factors in question.

 

Experts estimate that at least eight million people suffer from severe chronic pain in Germany. Medical specialists such as pain therapists, with their
Expertise to the various pain disorders help those people specifically.

Clinical disease


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