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When you hurt a chewing muscle, your body might produce more of a protein called NGF, which could make the nerves in that muscle extra sensitive over time and lead to long-lasting pain.
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The study looks at what happens when chewing muscles are injured more than once, and it finds changes in pain-sensing nerves that make them more sensitive, which supports the idea that repeated injury can lead to long-term pain through increased P2X3 and CGRP, even if it doesn't directly test NGF.
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