Everything is harder when you’re in pain. If your back pain, leg pain, shoulder pain, or neck pain hasn’t gone away in six months, you’re facing chronic pain, a complex condition that comes with unfortunate treatment challenges. Chronic pain that lasts for days and days without improvement quickly takes up a lot of space in your life.
You can suffer from chronic pain symptoms for months or years without successful treatment or real symptom relief. That’s because traditional medical approaches may not address the root cause of chronic pain, which often involves the brain and nervous system in complex ways.
For successful chronic pain treatment, you need a holistic care team operating at the cutting edge of medical science. At Iconic Infusions, PLLC of Fayetteville, North Carolina, board-certified anesthesiologist Dr. Bryant S. Edwards and his team provide ketamine therapy for chronic pain patients. This approach can result in transformative breakthroughs.
Chronic pain, especially chronic neuropathic pain, doesn’t always follow the rules of traditional wound healing or pain treatment. That’s because a healthy pain response signals an injury that needs treatment, while chronic pain doesn’t. Once an injury heals, a normal pain response ceases, and you feel better. In contrast, chronic pain, including neuropathic pain, may continue in an ongoing loop with no reference to an existing injury.
How do you treat pain with this type of nebulous source? It’s necessary to understand the pattern of nervous system activation involved in chronic pain.
Nerves throughout your body send sensory information back to your brain, where it registers in your perception. That includes pain signals. Chronic neuropathic pain often relates to pain signals that continue to transmit to the brain in a self-perpetuating loop.
The dissociative drug ketamine offers a way to break your brain out of its rut. Ketamine blocks specific neurological receptors, deactivating some areas and reactivating others. After basically resetting your brain, your chronic pain may no longer pose a problem for you.
Ketamine shows significant promise as an effective treatment for neuropathic-origin chronic pain. If your chronic pain is neuropathic in nature, you may not want to wait to see if traditional medicine works before exploring ketamine therapy. And, if you’ve already spent time trying other types of treatment without sufficient success, ketamine remains an option for you.
Dr. Edwards discusses your condition, symptoms, and health history with you and works with you to determine the best treatment path to pursue. While you may feel better after just one intravenous (IV) ketamine infusion session, Dr. Edwards typically recommends that his pain patients complete a full course of several spaced-apart treatments.
You can count on Dr. Edwards and the Iconic Infusions, PLLC team to consider all your chronic pain treatment options. We approach healing from a whole-body, whole-person perspective, listen to patients’ needs, and offer expert interventions that actually help.
To learn more about ketamine as a breakthrough therapy for chronic pain, contact Dr. Edwards at Iconic Infusions, PLLC today. Schedule your initial consultation online or by phone now.
