New Brain Scan Can Objectively Measure Chronic Pain
Chronic pain agonizes the lives of about 100 million adults, more than the combined total of heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. This isn’t including other sets of the chronic pain-afflicted, such as those in nursing homes, war veterans with long-term injuries, or children.
Unfortunately, chronic pain is also one of the least researched and understood health issues. Doctors aren’t quite prepared to address it, due to the fact that medical schools only spend an average of nine hours on the issue during a four-year course of study. That’s not to mention the federal government’s gross under-spending on chronic pain research – only about four dollars a year.
The largest issue remains to be that there’s no objective method to measure pain, or even confirm that it really exists. Only the patient can do that, and each patient’s pain scale is different.
There may be a way to measure chronic pain...
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