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Key takeaways from Anti-inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen are used to treat chronic pain. What if they cause it?

Chronic pain is often thought to be caused by inflammation. A provocative new paper suggests inflammation could actually prevent it.

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But a provocative new paper published to Science Translational Medicine suggests that reducing inflammation in the short-term could actually stifle healing, resulting in chronic pain over the long-term.
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