LOW-DOSE NALTREXONE HELPS TREAT INTRACTABLE PAIN
Summary: Intractable pain is among the most challenging pain syndromes to treat. Quite often, doctors need to prescribe opioids to manage such pain. However, opioids cause many side effects. It now appears that one of the drugs used to treat substance abuse, Naltrexone, is quite good for managing intractable pain and works at a low […]
SOME PEOPLE MORE LIKELY TO DEVELOP INTRACTABLE PAIN
Summary: Almost 40% of adults are living with chronic pain. However, many of them may progress to intractable pain. A kind of pain that would not benefit from traditional drug therapy and may require treatments like opioid therapy. Therefore, health experts think doctors and patients need to better understand intractable pain for a timely diagnosis of […]
KETAMINE INFUSION MAY HELP WITH CHRONIC OR INTRACTABLE PAINS
Summary: There are many painful, debilitating conditions that would not benefit from regular painkillers and even from opioids. People living with chronic pain continue to suffer. Constant pain increases the risk of depression and causes other changes in the brain. Ketamine infusion can be life-changing for such individuals, providing prolonged relief and even changing the course of […]
HORMONE THERAPY FOR CHRONIC PAIN
Summary: The release of hormones is the way body counters pain and stress. Thus, now researchers think that using hormones for pain relief may be a good approach, as it helps treat the root cause. Doctors have long used corticosteroids for pain management. However, they have now discovered that other hormones like HCG, oxytocin, progesterone, […]
INTRACTABLE PAIN MANAGEMENT REQUIRES COUNTERING SPINAL AND BRAIN INFLAMMATION
Summary: More than one-third of adults experience chronic pain, which is pain lasting for more than three months. It may be continuous or intermittent pain. However, in many, this pain progresses to so-called intractable pain, a kind of pain that outlives the underlying cause. This means that though the root cause of pain has been […]