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Tailor chronic pain interventions to your patient’s clinical profile

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Charles E. Argoff, MD explains that because the neuroplastic changes that take place in the nervous system following a lesion or injury may respond in an aberrant manner in some patients, triggering chronic pain, the clinician’s job is to find the right mix of interventions—pharmacologic, behavioral, and/or surgical—that best matches the patient’s clinical profile.


 

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