Individual differences in endogenous pain modulation as a risk factor for chronic pain.

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This review summarizes evidence, primarily from recent human studies, indirectly supporting a novel hypothesis: that the assessment of healthy individuals' responses to standardized noxious stimuli in a controlled laboratory environment has important implications for the later risk of developing a broad spectrum of chronically painful conditions. Descriptions of many chronic pain syndromes note that the disorder...

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