Conditioned pain modulation is not unidirectional: both hyper- and hypoalgesia can arise depending on the stimulus

Conditioned pain modulation (CPM) is the phenomenon in which one painful stimulus (the conditioning stimulus) affects the pain perception of a second stimulus (the test stimulus) at a different site.

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