MsL -

As noted, I accept that inflammation initiates all pain, but not that inflammation maintains all pain.

Do I quibble with the notion that inflammation is the origin of all pain? What came first, the chicken or the antibody?

As to where I am on all of this right now (and entirely consistent with the foregoing) as well as to get your opinion on a little editorial - by a pretty important guy - please give a quick look at a thread called The fascination of complex regional pain syndrome, Jänig, W., Exp. Neurol. (2009) I posted a couple of weeks back at http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread106842.html

thanks,
Mike