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Abnormal brain activity in lumbar disc herniation patients with chronic pain is associated with their clinical symptoms.
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Tang C, Guo G, Fang S, Yao C, Zhu B, Kong L, Pan X, Li X, He W, Wu Z, Fang MAbstract
Lumbar disc herniation, a chronic degenerative disease, is one of the major contributors to chronic low back pain and disability. Although many studies have been conducted in the past on brain function in chronic low back pain, most of these studies did not classify chronic low back pain (cLBP) patients according to their etiology. The lack of etiologic classification may lead to inconsistencies between findings, and the correlation between differences in brain activation and clinical symptoms in patients with cLBP was less studied in the past.