New York, NY (Business Wire) 29 September 2010

Month September is Pain Awareness and North American Neuromodulation Society (SIAA) with the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP) are to educate the public about the benefits and risks of various treatments of pain.

chronic pain in the â? Pumpa ????, called pain by physicians in a drug delivery system cord, may be an option. This is a drug delivery system that is precise and extremely low doses of drugs into the CSF, which runs the spinal cord. This is implanted through a spinal catheter and pump reached. These implantable devices for pain relief with a tiny fraction (1/300th) of the drug as needed, when taken orally. These devices should be removed to solve the problem of pain (ie, the treatment is reversible).

Dr. Joshua Prager, a member of both NANS ASIPP and said: â? The goal of a drug pump is a better control of your symptoms and reduce the requirements for oral medication. improve through the reduction or alleviation of pain and eliminate side effects of drugs taken orally in patients able to improve the quality of their> ????

Some conditions that are good at the pump pain: no back surgery syndrome, complex regional pain syndrome, arachnoiditis, and chronic pancreatitis. These pumps also provide a great relief for cancer patients and in one study in patients with this advanced form of pain relief lived longer and had better pain compared with standard medication management. A pump can also help, spasticity (muscle stiffness and spasms, that the movement of the arms and legs to make difficult) of cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, stroke, brain or spinal cord is caused.

What a pain pump?

The system of a small pump surgically placed under the skin and delivers drugs through a catheter to have the fluid bathing the spinal cord.
The pump is programmed to slow the drug on a continuous basis. It can also be programmed to have different amounts of drug released at different times, depending on the specific needs of the patient. Because the drug is delivered directly to the spinal cord, the symptoms can be controlled at much lower doses than required with oral medication.
All assessments of pain should be a specialist for doctor and specialist performed for pain management. To find a qualified physician for pain management in your area, go to http://www.asippmembersite.org/Search/Search.php.

About the Neuromodulation Society of North America (SIAA)

The North American Neuromodulation Society (SIAA) to the first organization that is dedicated to neuromodulation. NANS promotes interdisciplinary collaboration between clinicians, scientists, engineers and other neuromodulation through education, research, innovation and advocacy advance. Thanks to these efforts is to promote NANS and high-quality patient care. http://www.neuromodulation.org/

The American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians

ASIPPâ? s mission is to promote the development and practice of safety, quality, promote cost-effective interventional pain management techniques for the diagnosis and treatment of pain and disease and to ensure access patients, such interventions. Founded in 1998 by Chairman and CEO Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD, is a rapidly growing ASIPP profit organization with access to intervention techniques and the needs of doctors who assisted interventional pain management to perform accounts across the country.

Since its founding, the organization had a significant impact on the practice of interventional pain management, leading to an impressive list of achievements. In 2005 ASIPP successful the National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Act (NASPE), improves patient and provides access to high quality health care and to protect doctors and patients against the harmful effects of the abuse of controlled substances, abuse and trafficking. ASIPP currently has 4,500 members. For more information, visit or call 270.554.9412 www.asipp.org. Ext. 215.


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