A large portion of the American population suffers from some form of chronic pain. A study conducted by the National Health Institute found that an estimated 25.3 million adults have experienced chronic pain every day for a period of three months or more. So what is there to be done about this problem? There are…
A series of brain scans on people suffering from fibromyalgia show that they don’t manage pain as well as normal people. Patients seem to have altered brain process and this could explain why they tend to feel pain more frequently and intensely. Fibromyalgia also make these people don’t respond as well to any narcotic painkiller….
Chronic pain condition can be frustrating for patients, but as time goes on, they should know that the condition won’t beat them. They shouldn’t allow the disorder to take them down with it. They need to try to be positive with their live although they have to cope with the chronic pain all the time….
Researchers from the University of Michigan have experimented with the brain imaging technique to track the action of drugs for chronic pain treatments. The new study has been published recently in the Anesthesiology journal. The team used three different brain methods and they were able to observe how pregabalin works on patients. The drug is…
