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New treatments offer much-needed hope for patients suffering from chronic pain

  • Written by Rachael Rzasa Lynn, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
imageNew treatments for pain are on the horizon, but for many sufferers of chronic pain, they can't arrive soon enough. Olga Rolenko/Moment via Getty Images

Hundreds of millions of people around the worldexperience chronic pain – meaning pain that lasts longer than three months. While the numbers vary from country to country, most studies...

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