Muscle Pain Remedies

How day units can improve sickle cell crisis pain management

How day units can improve sickle cell crisis pain management

Why I'm thankful for an alternative to the emergency room Aside from the awful, crippling agony of a crisis, one of the most difficult aspects of having sickle cell disease for me is navigating the emergency department here in the United Kingdom, where I live. I...

New study identifies pathway to non-addictive pain relief

New study identifies pathway to non-addictive pain relief

While opioids such as fentanyl and oxycodone are among the most potent medicines known to modern medicine, they are also incredibly addictive and hence more difficult to get - even for individuals in severe pain. A new discovery may give pain patients hope in the form...

Clinician using the power of research to alleviate chronic pain

Clinician using the power of research to alleviate chronic pain

Sandy Christiansen, M.D., fills a syringe inside an OHSU Comprehensive Pain Center office room. Christiansen, an assistant professor of anesthesiology and perioperative medicine at OHSU, is one of the few academics with a clinical focus on employing interventional...