Uploaded on May 19, 2011
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We think of pain as a symptom, but there are cases where the nervous
system develops feedback loops and pain becomes a terrifying disease in
itself. Starting with the story of a girl whose sprained wrist turned
into a nightmare, Elliot Krane talks about the complex mystery of
chronic pain, and reviews the facts we're just learning about how it
works and how to treat it.
The mystery of chronic pain
Uploaded on May 19, 2011
http://www.ted.com
We think of pain as a symptom, but there are cases where the nervous
system develops feedback loops and pain becomes a terrifying disease in
itself. Starting with the story of a girl whose sprained wrist turned
into a nightmare, Elliot Krane talks about the complex mystery of
chronic pain, and reviews the facts we're just learning about how it
works and how to treat it.
About 10 percent of the time, after [a] patient has
recovered … pain persists. It persists for months and oftentimes for
years, and when that happens, it is its own disease.
Elliot Krane
We think of pain as a symptom, but there are cases where the nervous
system develops feedback loops and pain becomes a terrifying disease in
itself. Starting with the story of a girl whose sprained wrist turned
into a nightmare, Elliot Krane talks about the complex mystery of
chronic pain, and reviews the facts we're just learning about how it
works and how to treat it.
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Why you should listen
It's an awful problem to contemplate: How do you help
a young child in pain? As director of Pain Management Services at
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford, Elliot Krane
works on solving this problem, studying and treating kids who are
undergoing surgeries, suffering from complications of diabetes -- and
kids suffering "neuropathic pain" resulting from injury to the nervous
system itself.
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