Types Of Pain Medicine
Use factors besides efficacy to guide neuropathic pain Tx.(Pain Medicine)Boschert, Sherry SAN DIEGO -- Medications for chronic neuropathic pain share similar efficacy, so choose therapy based on safety, tolerability, and ease of use, according to Scott M. Fishman, M.D.
"Each drug that we use has been studied in one or two different neuropathic pain disorders and found to be relatively efficacious, but there's no drug that's been tested in all the disorders," and few head-to-head comparisons exist, he added at a psychopharmacology congress sponsored by the Neuroscience Education Institute.
One exception in efficacy may apply to patients with shooting, ...
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