What is "chronic pain"?

What is "chronic pain"?

Marc Darrow (Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Joint Rehabilitation Sports Medical Center, Inc. ) gives expert video advice on: What causes pain?; How do doctors determine the source of specific pains? and more...

Chronic pain is pain that a person has had typically, depending on different doctors' definitions, more than 3 to 6 months in duration. Usually when someone has chronic pain, there is a higher probability that it's going to stay for quite some time, so the person could have have pain for months, years, or even a lifetime after that.