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What is the difference between acute and chronic pain?

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Migraine sufferers tend to have lower levels of magnesium.
Migraine sufferers tend to have lower levels of magnesium.

Acute pain is a normal sensation triggered in the nervous system to alert you to possible injury and the need to take care of yourself. Chronic pain persists. Pain signals keep firing in the nervous system for weeks, months, even years.

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Arthritis Foundation of South Africa
Multiple Sclerosis South Africa
The South African Society of Physiotherapy

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