Until now, the primary treatment was opioids. But Chicago doctors are working to make them obsolete.
Cutting edge therapies for chronic pain are being developed in Chicago hospitals.
"The incidence of chronic pain is significant," said Dr. Asokumar Buvanendran the Anesthesiology Department Chair at Rush University Medical Center. "In fact, it is much more than hypertension and diabetes combined," he added. Until now, the primary treatment was opioids. But Chicago doctors are working to make them obsolete.
Rush is partnering with the National Institute of Health to identify where chronic pain originates and who is most susceptible to developing it. "Traditionally, pain is reported by the patient, but we can actually see documented evidence now in the brain of the circuits that light up with chronic pain. So that's a really exciting and new field that's developed over the years," said Dr. Buvanendran.
"So if you're able to interrupt the signals in the process, you naturally can cut down the pain signals going to the brain, and therefore you decrease the pain perception," said Dr. Buvanendran. At Northwestern Memorial Hospital, doctors are taking a closer look at the psychology of pain.
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