A third type, centralized pain, occurs when your nervous system amplifies the volume of pain signals. Interestingly, centralized pain often lingers long after the original tissue damage has healed. In many cases of a nociceptive pain response to tissue damage, the lingering pain has nothing to do with the injury. Pain receptors have been sensitized, and sometimes new pain receptors have been formed. This can persist for months or years after the tissue damage occurred. To resolve it, you have to do more than just treat the symptoms. It takes understanding and addressing the root causes of the
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