Not all of these treatments work well and they don't work independently, Galbraith said. They must be part of an overall plan. The idea behind the non-drug treatments is that patients can do something on their own to manage their pain. That includes changing their attitudes about pain and how they manage it. We are having a good amount of success with our patients.
Medications are much better than they used to be and there is a better selection of drugs.
There are breakthroughs all the time. But as all of this converging data comes out, there's always more that we need to study. There still is a great deal of misunderstanding about the treatment of chronic pain, even among physicians. N. Port Washington Rd. JoEllyn Alwes joins AOE with a Masters degree in Physical Therapy.