Pathophysiology of Chronic Pain
Synthesising cross-disciplinary evidence positions chronic pain as a systems disease requiring integrated, mechanism-based and person-centred care. Defining the shared biological scaffold clarifies why traditional symptom-focused treatments fail and outlines research priorities for disease-modifying analgesics and equitable delivery models.
Authors
- Stanley Lyndon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2651-9754)
Institutions
- Brigham and Women's Hospital (US)
- Harvard University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Clinical Journal of Pain
- Published
- 2026-01-02
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/ajp.0000000000001362
- Primary Topic
- Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00