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Research on pain over the last 5 to 10 years has found:

C) Chronic pain involves many parts of your brain and nervous system working together

How you experience pain is very complex. It involves many parts of your nervous system and your brain. It can also be affected by your emotions, your surroundings, and other things going on in your body and in your life.

A) Very few new insights about the nature of pain

B) Pain is best treated with opioids despite the risks these medications pose

C) Chronic pain involves many parts of your brain and nervous system working together

D) Chronic pain is the same as the short-term pain you get from an injury or surgery

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For some conditions that cause chronic pain, there may not be ongoing damage. Instead, the pain is the result of:

D) Both A and B

Chronic pain often involves the body’s warning systems becoming overly sensitive. This can mean your nerves and brain send and receive pain signals even though no harm is occurring. It can also mean new nerve cells grow for the sole purpose of sending pain signals, which may be false alarms. Everyone with chronic pain wants to get better.

A) Your body’s warning systems (brain and nerves) being on high alert and triggering even when no harm is occurring

B) Your body growing special nerve cells that send pain signals even when there is no damage occurring

C) You not wanting to get better.

D) Both A and B

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Pain is often a normal or helpful sensation.

True

Every day, we have sensations that can be experienced as pain. But whether we interpret those sensations as pain — or, more importantly, as suffering — often depends on context (for example, what is going on in our life and environment).

True

False

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