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Spinal anesthesia is widely used to numb patients during surgery, but its effects sometimes wear off too soon.

Neuropathic pain, defined as pain caused by a lesion or disease of the somatosensory nervous system, does not act as a signal to warn the body of damage as acute pain does, and thus it does not have a ...