How come with all the advancements we have today there are still no permanent treatments for pain?
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A few different reasons, but the most important of them being that pain is a very important physiological indicator that something is wrong. It’s difficult to block chronic pain signals without also blocking acute pain signals, and blocking those acute pain signals can lead people to not seek help for an ailment because they’re unaware of it. The other reason being that the body adapts very well to change. New blood vessels grow, cells can grow and lose receptors, and so on. There’s not much we can do in terms of pain management long-term that the body couldn’t compensate to undo.
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