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Forest T NNANT MD, DRPH
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abstract: The
most important discovery for
pain management in the past generation
is that a painful, peripheral injury can permanently imprint the memory of pain in the
central nervous system (CNS).1-3 It is therefore most fitting that centralization of pain
be included in PAINWeek’s journal launch.
be overstated. A new vocabulary is emerging as well as rethinking about old terms.3
For example, the terms neuroinflammation
and neurogenesis were hardly uttered a
couple of years ago, whereas today they
form the foundation of our understanding
and treatment of centralized pain. Our challenge today is to educate all concerned
The importance of pain centralization can’t parties about centralized pain.
“Centralized is the consensus term meaning that pain initially started in the periphery and migrated into the CNS.”
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