The best adjunct treatment for pain is exercise to strengthen the muscles involved surrounding the injured body part. With veterans this is not always possible due to the extent of their bodily damage, i.e. you can’t exercise muscles that have been severely damaged or blown off of your body. There will still be pain no matter what kind of adjunct treatment is performed.
I am not optimistic that medical practice will get off of the “opioids are evil” meme for quite a while. The cheerleaders derive too much power from their misrepresentations.
“I am not optimistic that medical practice will get off of the “opioids are evil” meme for quite a while. The cheerleaders derive too much power from their misrepresentations.”
Sigh. I was very much afraid you would say that.
It is too bad they cannot seem to get that into some physical therapists and Doctors heads. Get so tired of being sent to PT because the nerve damage in a leg that had 25% of the thigh muscle vaporized causes excruciating spasm/cramping at times that take sometimes an hour to walk off. Get to live with the pain walking around in the middle of the night trying to be quiet unable to sit lay down or stop moving. Then if mentioned to the Doc get sent to therapy that puts you thru exercise regimens that do nothing because you can't exercise scar tissue and turn it into muscle.