New Approaches To Pain Relief

Title:
New Approaches To Pain Relief
Word Count:
509

Summary:
The main problem that people have had with pain relief drugs is that, in large enough or poten

Keywords:
pain relief

Article Body:
Modern medicines that provide pain relief are considered to be wonderful little things, often

from pain. However, it is a known fact that the more pain you feel, the more pain relief medic

Certainly, you do have the option of using more potent medication, such as upgrading from Tram

cases, this is not an option. The standard is that when the pain gets worse, the patient has t

problem with this approach, and with using a more potent pain killer, is that the body eventua


sense of numbness because of the medication. In high enough doses, the body may even fall asle
the sheer amount of pain killer in the bloodstream.
Of course, there may be another way to go about this situation. The fact is, most people find

possibility of becoming unconscious to be a bit more than unsettling. It can be a severe annoy

potential to become threatening if the person needs to engage in activities that require alert

this flaw in the design of pain relief medication, but there has been little progress by way o

method. However, medical science is aware that the nerves and receptors that signal the pain r
separate from the nerves and receptors that process other sensations. Therefore, there should
reaction without having to suppress every other reaction.

There is an experimental treatment currently being used that promises to be able to do that, b

to the research team, it only works if an injection of hot pepper spice is made prior to the u

relief compound. This is a negative factor because the injection has been known to cause effec


unpleasantness to actual pain. Researchers are still trying to find a way to circumvent that i

problem of having to introduce a painful compound into the body before administering something

the ˆhigh price˜ of this experiment, there have been positive results. For example, test subje
regular sensation, without associating it with pain.
The research team hopes that this might one day revolutionize surgical and post-surgical uses

There have always been issues related to the use and effects of pain killers and anesthetics i

as in post-surgical therapy. For example, most anesthetics make the patient fall asleep or bec

a frightening situation if the patient awakens during the procedure and is unable to inform th

everything they’re doing. If the researchers can perfect their technique, then the patient wou
procedure, but would feel nothing and would not be fully immobilized.

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