Information for Patients and Friends

Introduction to Central Pain (off site)

Thanks to David Berg, PainOnline webmaster

"The Pain Beyond Pain". Central Pain is the name for a pain syndrome which occurs when injury to the Central Nervous System is insufficient to cause numbness but sufficient to cause central sensitization of the pain system.

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The Nature of Pain (off site)

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Typical pain occurs with stimulus to a nerve ending, causing a voltage rise or "receptor potential", which then initiates another voltage rise further up the nerve, a so-called "action potential", which travels along the nerve to the thalamus, which is the brain's pain regulator. 

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Guessing at the Cause of Central Pain (off site)

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Guessing at the Cause of Central Pain - A Primer on What We Think We Know

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How Pain Nerve Cells Act When They Are In Pain (off site)

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Pain is an experience common to everyone. And because everyone has experienced physical pain on some level, most people think they have a reasonable understanding of what pain is like for everyone else.

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"Who Gets Central Pain?" (off site)

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Central pain isn't a condition that comes by itself. Central pain can result as a consequence of a number of other conditions. Most people suffering from neuropathic pain from the central nervous system from these various conditions have no idea that their most distressing symptom, intractable central pain, is shared by people with such a wide range of other health conditions.

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