Experiencing pain can be a vital warning to seek help, for example in a person experiencing appendicitis or a heart attack. According to a 2012 survey, about 11% of US adults have pain every day and more than 17 percent have severe levels of pain. “The healthy response is you get pain, it tells you something is wrong, it heals, and the pain goes away,” said Carrasquillo. “In chronic pain, that doesn’t happen, the system gets stuck. If we can identify what makes the system gets stuck, then we can reverse it.”Read full story

Source: The Express Tribune October 16, 2019 00:11 UTC