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Researchers believe that there are two possible causes: 1) Damage to the sensory nerves that carry sensation from the skin to the spinal cord, and damage to the nerves of the spinal cord itself. 2) A chronic low grade infection in the sensory nerves, and in the nerve root ganglia where they originate.
