Ideas And Beliefs And Not Science, Driving Chronic Pain Care

Summary: Recently, the use of opioids to treat non-cancer chronic pains has become controversial. Some experts think such use is justified, while others believe that there is no additional benefit of opioid therapy. However, the problems with both these views are that they are not based on clinical data. There are practically no high-quality clinical […]
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 […]