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chronic pain
Endone: your questions answered
Oxycodone, also known as Endone, is a potent opioid medication commonly prescribed for pain but new Australian evidence shows it’s time to rethink its use for more effective pain management and greater patient safety.
What is Fibromyalgia? Dr. Norman Swan
Fibromyalgia is explained by Dr. Norman Swan as a chronic pain syndrome caused by neurological rewiring after an injury. Even though the injury has healed and you’ve made a full recovery, the brain fails to realise this and continues to send pain signal. It’s a serious issue which requires full body therapeutic treatment.
What Are The Symptoms Of Arthritis? Dr. Jennifer Stevens
Dr. Jennifer Stevens discusses the the symptoms of arthritis and how to deal with the problems related to the disease.
How is Chronic Pain Managed? Dr. Jennifer Stevens
Dr. Jennifer Stevens discusses the treatment for chronic pain, and the effects chronic pain has on your everyday life.
Is There a Need for a National Approach to Pain Management? Dr. Jennifer Stevens
Dr. Jennifer Stevens discusses the support and resources available for those with chronic pain and also the ongoing research and assistance into the area.
What is Involved in Self Managing My Pain? Dr. Jennifer Stevens
Dr. Jennifer Stevens discuss the short the approach people need to take to be able to manage their own chronic pain and how access the right professionals and support you will need along the way.
What is Multidisciplinary Pain Management? Dr. Jennifer Stevens
If you’ve got chronic pain that’s gone on for longer than three months or is very complex and started to affect other parts of your life, you’ll often be referred to a multidisciplinary pain clinic. Now, what does that mean? That means that we look at all the different aspects of your life and how the pain has affected it. So, it’s partly about the physical, it’s about drug safety, making sure that the medications that you’re on are not ones that you’re going to become dependent on, they’re not going to cause other problems within your life. It’s partly about making sure that nothing’s been missed in your diagnosis.
What is Chronic Pain? Dr. Jennifer Stevens
Dr. Jennifer Stevens defines the difference between chronic pain and short term pain that can be dealt with through medication and therapy.
What are some Complementary Therapies for Pain? Dr. Jennifer Stevens
We have very few quick fixes for chronic pain, not many of the medications that we use provide instantaneous relief. Many of the medications that we do have, come with really significant problems, for example, the morphine type drugs.
