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Anti-Inflammatory Drugs and Chronic Pain

Clinical data shows that the use of anti-inflammatory drugs was associated with increased risk of persistent pain, suggesting that anti-inflammatory treatments might have negative effects on pain duration. Anti-inflammatory drugs are NSAIDs and steroids.

NY TImes article: Download Common Medications Can Prolong Back Pain Study Says - The New York Times

 

What we lose when we undertreat pain

Kate Nicholson is writing a memoir and speaking about her twenty-year journey to healing after a surgery left her in severe pain, unable to sit, limited in standing and walking, and for many years, bedridden.  This TedX talk is necessary viewing for patients and their physicians.

A Doctor's Calling

If I can stop one Heart from breaking      
I shall not live in vain   
If I can ease one Life the Aching,        
Or cool one Pain

Or help one fainting Robin             
Unto his Nest again     
I shall not live in Vain.

                                          Emily Dickinson