Nociplastic pain: helping to explain disconnect between pain and pathology

David A Walsh^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Pain Centre Versus Arthritis, NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, Academic Rheumatology, University of Nottingham Clinical Sciences Building, City Hospital, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
² Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sutton in Ashfield, United Kingdom.

Editorial

David A Walsh. Pain. 2021.

. 2021 Nov 1;162(11):2627-2628.

doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002323.

David A Walsh^{1

2}

¹ Pain Centre Versus Arthritis, NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, Academic Rheumatology, University of Nottingham Clinical Sciences Building, City Hospital, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
² Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sutton in Ashfield, United Kingdom.

No abstract available

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