Discovery could eventually help diagnose and treat chronic pain

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More than 100 million Americans suffer from chronic pain. But treating and studying chronic pain is complex and presents many challenges.

Stewart-Marshall’s insight:

Scientists have long searched for a method to objectively measure pain and a new study from Brigham and Women’s Hospital advances that effort. The study appears in the January 2013 print edition of the journal Pain.

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