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Does chronic pain mean it lasts your whole life ?
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Chronic Pain: is defined as pain still present after three months despite appropriate treatment. Chronic pain does not point the clinician in the direction of underlying pathology and chronic pain cannot be cured; it must be managed.
Answered 1/23/2015
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