How doctors treat chronic pain has long been an issue, with patients suffering from conditions like fibromyalgia struggling to find any medications to help reduce the pain they live with.
But a new ground-breaking discovery by researchers at Aberdeen University found that our nervous system deals with chronic pain very differently to normal pain.
STV News spoke to one woman whose life could be transformed by the discovery.
Follow STV News on WhatsApp
Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country
