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Interplay between noxious heat sensitivity and temporal summation magnitude in patients with fibromyalgia and long-term opioid use.
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Bao JD, Rosser MA, Park SH, Baker AK, Martucci KTAbstract
In chronic pain conditions such as fibromyalgia (FM), pain amplification within the central nervous system, or “central sensitization,” may contribute to the development and maintenance of chronic pain. Chronic pain treatments include opioid therapy, and opioid therapy may maladaptively increase central sensitization, particularly in patients who take opioids long-term. However, it has remained unknown how central sensitization is impacted in patients who use opioids long-term.