Neuropathic pain can develop when
the nerves of the somatic (voluntary) nervous system become damaged and
transmit sensory signals to the central nervous system in an altered and
disordered fashion. This kind of pain is estimated to affect 7 to 10 percent of
the general population worldwide. Often when we think of pain it is the nociceptive kind,
the acute pain that comes with injury or tissue damage caused by a specific
event. Neuropathic pain, on the other hand, tends to be chronic and less
sharp. “The character and quality of neuropathic pain tends to be pain
that’s burning or electric in character,” says Vernon Williams, MD, a
sports neurologist and the director of the Center for Sports Neurology and Pain
Medicine at Cedars-Sini Kerlan-Jobe Institute in Los Angeles.
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