Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Where do we go from here? Future treatment strategies for chronic pain.
- Journal:
- Topics in companion animal medicine
- Year:
- 2010
- Authors:
- Grubb, Tamara
- Affiliation:
- College of Veterinary Medicine · United States
Plain-English summary
Veterinary medicine has many tools to help pets with chronic pain, but they aren't always used as often as they could be. In the near future, we might see more of these existing treatments being used, along with some new medications and techniques that are currently used for people. Researchers are working hard to find better ways to manage chronic pain, and there's hope that both pets and people will benefit from these advancements. Overall, the focus is on improving the care we already provide for pets suffering from chronic pain.
Abstract
Many of the tools that can be used to alleviate chronic pain in our patients are readily available to all practitioners, but they are not used with appropriate frequency. Thus, the immediate future of chronic pain therapy is simply to do more of what we are already doing. There are also drugs and techniques currently used in human medicine that may be available to us in the near future and many drugs and techniques on the research bench that might make it to our patients in the more distant future. Because of the magnitude of the chronic pain problem in human medicine, research on the treatment of chronic pain is intense, and the hope is that both human and veterinary patients will eventually benefit.
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