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How we perceive pain is a complex interaction between mind and body. This interaction involves the nervous system and other factors, such as genetics, culture, thoughts, emotions, previous pain expereinces, stress, and what was happening in our lives when the pain started. Chronic pain is pain that is ongoing and usually lasts longer than six months. This type of pain can continue even after the injury or illness that caused it has healed or gone away. Pain signals remain active in the nervous system for weeks, months or years. Some people suffer chronic pain even when there is no past injury or apparent body damage. Foot pain is a common accompaniment of advancing age, affecting at least one in four older people. However, management of foot pain is a largely undervalued aspect of geriatric health care, resulting in many older people needlessly enduring chronic foot pain and related disability. When pain becomes chronic, it no longer plays by the same rules as a typical healthy pain response. The central focus of pain research can be accurately cast as a question of individual differences: why does chronic pain eventually develop in only a minority of people after injuries and infections that can produce chronic pain (e.g., traumatic nerve injury, stroke, herpes zoster, diabetes)? Some patients have had great success with PRP Injection for their pain management.