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chronic pain. Under the overall category of medicines, there are both oral and topical therapies for the treatment of chronic pain. Oral medications include people who are often taken orally, like nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug drugs, acetaminophen, and opioids. Also available are medications which will be applied to the skin, whether as an ointment or cream or by a patch that's applied to the skin. Some of these patches work by being placed directly on top of the painful area where the active drug, like lidocaine, is released. Others, like fentanyl patches, could also be placed at a location far away from the painful area. There are many things which will help together with your pain which do not involve medications. These things may help relieve some pain and reduce the medications required to regulate your pain. Examples include exercises, best performed under the direction of a physiotherapist. There are also alternative modalities, such as acupuncture. Transcutaneous Electro-Nerve Stimulator (TENS) units use pads that are placed on your skin to provide stimulation around the area of pain and may help to reduce some types of pain symptoms. There are multiple procedures that range from epidural injections for pain involving the neck and arm or the back and leg, facet injections into the joints that allow movement of the neck and back to injections for burning pain of the arms or legs due to a
syndrome called Complex Regional Pain
Syndrome or Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy.
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