#81. How to Choose the Right Pain Treatments?

Sep 22, 2021

Treatment of pain is challenging to say the least. For one it is difficult to understand the complexity of the pain experience. This episode explains the components of nociception and the pain experience.  It also examines the targets for pain control and thus provides comprehensive framework for choosing the right analgesic treatments!

 

Takeaways in This Episode

• Components of Nociception
• How a noxious injury becomes a pain impulse
• The pain perception pathways
• Interpretation of pain
• Modulation of pain
• Peripheral and central targets for pain control
• How various pain treatments work and at what levels
• 3 Unique features of pain - Wind-Up Phenomenon, Hyperesthesia, Central Sensitization

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Other Helpful Episodes:

Episode 80. Stop Treating Pain Like a Symptom

Episode 79. Pain Amongst Neonates, Infants and Young Children with Dr. Kanwaljeet "Sunny" Anand

Proactive Pain Solutions Physicians Academy

Clinicians Pain Evaluation Toolkit