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The mystery of chronic pain - Elliot Krane

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We think of pain as a symptom, but there are cases where the nervous system develops feedback loops and pain becomes a terrifying disease in itself. Starting with the story of a girl whose sprained wrist turned into a nightmare, Elliot Krane talks about the complex mystery of chronic pain and reviews the facts we're just learning about how it works and how to treat it.

Krane shares his vision that treating chronic pain in the future will be disease-modifying drugs rather than symptom-modifying drugs. What implications for the future does this have in the medical world?

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