A broken bone may lead to widespread body pain -- not just at the site of the fracture

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-01/uos-abb010516.php

Public Release: 5-Jan-2016
A broken bone may lead to widespread body pain -- not just at the site of the fracture
University of Southampton

Breaking a major bone may increase risk of widespread chronic body pain in later life, a new study has found.

Researchers at the Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit (MRC LEU), University of Southampton, found that men and women who had a spine fracture and women who had a hip fracture were more than twice as likely to experience long term widespread pain as those who had not had a fracture.

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