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Experimental sleep restriction lowers pain thresholds in healthy volunteers within days. In longitudinal studies, poor sleep predicts future pain more strongly than pain predicts future sleep.
Most lumbar radicular pain improves substantially within twelve weeks. Knowing the shape of that curve changes how the middle of it feels.
Disc bulges, degeneration, and annular tears appear in large numbers of people who feel nothing at all. Here is how to read your scan without fear.
When the nervous system amplifies its own signals, ordinary sensations start to hurt. This is a real, measurable process — and it is not the same as imagining pain.
A condition once dismissed as unexplained is now one of the best-characterised examples of altered central pain processing.