Ketamine Treatment For Chronic Pain in Durango, CO
What is Chronic Pain?
Everyone experiences pain on a daily basis. Pain is usually your body warning you that something is wrong, either in the form of illness or injury.
When the injury has healed, the pain tends to go away. Unfortunately, some people develop a form of pain that continues for months at a time.
If you experience pain that lasts for three to six months (or more), you are experiencing chronic pain.
Chronic pain quickly takes its toll on your physical and mental health.
How does Ketamine treat Chronic Pain?
Ketamine was first developed and approved by the FDA as an anesthetic, but it has been used as a painkiller for decades. While you may know it as the club drug often abused as Special K, Ketamine is what some doctors are calling the biggest breakthrough in depression and pain treatment in decades. When infused at a low dose into the bloodstream, research indicates that Ketamine may be up to 80% effective at treating the symptoms of pain and depression.
One benefit to Ketamine Infusions for chronic pain management is its ability to sometimes bring relief to symptoms within minutes or hours, rather than the weeks or months medication or physical therapy can take.
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We utilize the powerful effect of ketamine to treat conditions such as depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), severe anxiety, bipolar disorder, and migraines. The clinic also treats complex chronic pain conditions such as fibromyalgia, complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) or reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD), and many other painful neuropathies.
The Different Types of Chronic Pain
Acute/Short Term Pain
This pain usually indicates a disease or a physical injury within the body. It can be an important signal of wounds, infections, burns, or other injuries, and helps the body protect itself. Acute pain can last anywhere up to 12 weeks (depending on the cause of the pain). Once the cause has been treated, the pain will usually go away on its own. It is important to remember that acute pain is a symptom, but chronic pain is a disease in its own right.
Chronic/Long Term Pain
There are two essential categories pain can be divided into: nociceptive and neuropathic pain. Nociceptive pain is when signals are sent to the brain after an injury. Neuropathic pain is a result of damage to the nervous system itself. Chronic pain may exist even long after the injury has healed. The nervous system will incorrectly signal to the brain that there is pain, when there is actually no injury present anymore. Chronic pain can last months or even years.
Nerve/Neuropathic Pain
Quite a few events or conditions can cause nerve damage. Neuropathic pain directly affects how pain signals are sent to the brain. If unrepaired, nerve damage can lead to long-time neuropathic chronic pain.
Localized Nerve/ Neuropathic Pain
Most nerve conditions are localized to a specific part of the body. Infections and surgeries both can create localized nerve damage that in turn will create long-term/chronic pain. The origins of localized neuropathic pain can be hard to trace, so make sure to inform your doctor if you have had an infection or surgery in the area your chronic pain is stemming from.
