Which term describes pain that continues after the stimuli is removed?

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The concept being tested is how different pain phenomena present after nerve or central nervous system changes. Hyperpathia describes a heightened pain response to a stimulus that is painful to most people, but with a delayed onset and a lingering after-sensation that continues even after the stimulus is removed. This persistence after the stimulus ends is the key feature and reflects altered processing of pain signals in the central nervous system (central sensitization). In practice, you might see a light touch provoke a very strong pain that doesn’t just stop when the touch ends but continues for a while.

Allodynia is pain from a stimulus that wouldn’t normally provoke pain (like light touch), hyperalgesia is an exaggerated response to a painful stimulus, and Cumulative Trauma Disorder refers to repetitive-use injuries rather than a pain response that outlasts the triggering stimulus.