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Desensitization and CRPS: Exposure-Based Approaches

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As expounded on in the previous article on Centralized Pain, we discussed how prolonged pain system activation can lead to hyper-responsiveness and lowered thresholds so nerves fire more easily, a dual phenomenon called wind-up and sensitization. Sensitization is when pain loses its protective properties and becomes maladaptive and pathological; but the protective purpose of pain … Read More “Desensitization and CRPS: Exposure-Based Approaches” »

Centralized Pain and CRPS

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Many with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome experience disproportionate pain that is no longer being sustained by an injury or noxious event (even if an injury may have been the initial trigger) that remains contained to a single body area or they may develop widespread, disparate pain and dysfunction that can affect multiple body areas over … Read More “Centralized Pain and CRPS” »