Early life adversity increases risk for chronic posttraumatic pain, data from humans and rodents
Lauren A. McKibben,
Alice Woolard,
Samuel A. McLean
et al.
Abstract:Traumatic stress exposures (TSE) are common in life. While most individuals recover following a TSE, a substantial subset develop adverse posttraumatic neuropsychiatric sequelae such as chronic posttraumatic musculoskeletal pain (CPMP). Vulnerability factors for CPMP are poorly understood, which hinders identification of high-risk individuals for targeted interventions. One known vulnerability factor for many pain types is exposure to early life adversity (ELA), but few studies have assessed whether ELA increa… Show more
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