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Pain is often prolonged by anti-inflammatory drugs
Treatment using steroids and anti-inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen to treat low back pain can increase the risk of developing tenacious chronic pain.
Osteoarthritis: auto-inflammation, IL-17 and the microbiome
Osteoarthritis is an autoinflammatory condition characterized by a more aggressive inflammatory response to stressed or damaged tissue, with a subset exhibiting high IL-17 activity, a hallmark of autoimmunity. This may be ameliorated by regulating the autoinflammatory response through manipulation of the gut microbiome.
Pain chronic after injury, surgery due to neuroinflammation
"...the transition from acute physiological pain to persistent pain involves low-grade inflammation in the central nervous system (CNS), glial dysfunction and subsequently an imbalance in the neuron–glial interaction that causes enhanced and prolonged pain transmission."
Migraine, depression, Alzheimer's and lipid metabolism
"Taken together, our findings suggest it is possible that migraine is a neurologic disorder of 'minor' sphingolipid dysmetabolism..."
Chronic pain caused by autoimmune attack on nerve potassium channels
Chronic pain caused by autoimmune attack on nerve potassium channels
Menstrual pain changes the brain, meditation helps
Menstrual pain changes the brain, meditation helps