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Video: What's the difference between chronic nonspecific back pain and occasional instances of acute back pain?
By Mayo Clinic staffTranscript
Randy Shelerud, M.D., Mayo Clinic specialist in physical medicine and rehabilitation
Chronic nonspecific back pain has to do with this imprint of pain that exists in the central nervous system, specifically the spinal cord and the brain. Patients who have occasional acute back pain that fully resolves likely continue to have lesions in the low back that tend to heal over time without any of that subsequent representation of that pain signal that stays in the central nervous system.
