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Chronic pain is both one of the world’s most costly medical problems, affecting one in every five people, and one of the most mysterious. In the past two decades, however, discoveries about the crucial role played by glia – a set of nervous system cells once thought to be mere supports for neurons – have rewritten chronic pain science.
The view of pain as a symptom of disease, rather than as a disease state itself, has contributed to the neglect of this condition in the world of public health.
These findings have given patients and doctors a hard-science explanation that chronic pain previously lacked.
Sabra Brock
Max Berghouse
Mel Raassina
Jonathan Chrimes