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Pain - dealing with chronic pain
Chronic pain is pain that lasts for days, weeks, or even months. Originally, what started as a signal that you had hurt yourself became a signal that refused to go away. Why do you develop chronic pain, and what can you do about it? Perhaps one way to explain this