About 20 percent of people in the United States experience chronic pain, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and about 8 percent of Americans experience “high impact” pain that frequently limits their work or life activities. Pain management helps these patients return to work and improve their quality of life.
Types of Pain
There are several types of pain, and each requires a different approach to pain management and pain management supplements. Neuropathic pain is the result of damage or disease affecting the nervous system, for example. Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a type of chronic pain that affects one limb, such as an arm, leg, hand, or foot. Diabetic neuropathy is a type of nerve damage associated with diabetes.
Since everyone is unique, and there are so many types of pain, each person can experience pain – and relief from pain – in his or her own way. In many cases, standard therapies often provide inadequate pain relief when dosages are too low, or when a health condition makes it hard to swallow or keep down pills. Standard therapies can also expose patients to a number of uncomfortable or even dangerous side effects when dosages are too high or when taken in wrong combinations with other medicines.
Compounding pharmacies can help by creating compounded pain medications in exact dosages, in the right combinations, and available in customized delivery systems. The exact dosages help patients get the right amount of medication for complete pain relief and the lowest possible risk of side effects.
Ketoprofen
Ibuprofen
Diclofenac