Persistent pain lasting more than three months that affects daily functioning and quality of life.
✦ AI summary
Here's what these sources suggest about chronic pain: Chronic pain shows up across many different conditions—joint disorders like Ehlers-Danlos syndrome [1], bladder conditions like interstitial cystitis [2], gut-brain conditions like IBS [10], nerve-related conditions like occipital neuralgia and complex regional pain syndrome [5][6], whiplash injury [8], and inflammatory arthritis [12]. Research increasingly points to pain being shaped by multiple overlapping mechanisms—not just tissue damage or inflammation, but also nervous-system sensitization ("centrally mediated" pain), psychological factors, and biological sex. For example, one study found that features of centrally mediated pain and mental health symptoms, rather than inflammation itself, best predicted which arthritis patients had persistent pain two years later [12], and another review describes sex-specific biological pathways (hormones, immune signaling, gut microbiome) that may explain why pain disorders disproportionately affect women [11]. Trauma history is also common among people with chronic pain and is linked to worse pain-related outcomes, which is relevant to therapies like acceptance and commitment therapy [7]. On the social and treatment
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