Understanding Pain Sensitization
Why pain persists after tissues heal — central sensitization, the wind-up phenomenon, and evidence-based strategies to reset your pain system.
The most important concept for chronic pain sufferers: pain is an output of the brain, not a direct measure of tissue damage. Your brain decides how much pain to produce based on many inputs — tissue signals are only ONE of them.
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