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Sensitization<br />

10<br />

<strong>Pain</strong> Intensity<br />

8<br />

6<br />

4<br />

Hyperalgesia<br />

Allodynia<br />

Injury<br />

Normal<br />

<strong>Pain</strong><br />

Response<br />

Hyperalgesia –<br />

heightened sense of<br />

pain to noxious stimuli<br />

2<br />

Allodynia –pain<br />

resulting from normally<br />

painless stimuli<br />

0<br />

Stimulus Intensity<br />

Gottschalk A, Smith DS. Am Fam Physician. 2001;1979

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