Neuropathic pain appears due to injury and/or abnormal functioning of the nervous system that begins to interpret normal sensory stimuli. In these cases, the pain loses its protective and alert sense, and it is the nervous system itself that "deceives" itself. What is neuropathic pain? The term "neuropathic pain" was adopted to give a name to pain generated in the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) or in the peripheral (nerves, plexuses, and microscopic nerve endings) that ap...