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Ketamine Infusion Therapy for Chronic Pain: How It Works and What to Expect
If you’re living with chronic pain, chances are you spend a lot of time researching potential treatments and therapies to improve or relieve your symptoms. It’s not easy to spend most or all of your days in pain, and you need expert treatment support.
One treatment option you should know about is ketamine infusion therapy for chronic pain. Ketamine, an anesthetic drug, also produces dissociative effects on your brain. Many chronic pain patients have found that therapeutic treatment with ketamine offers a way to ease symptoms and even end the cycle of ongoing pain.
Board-certified anesthesiologist Dr. Bryant S. Edwards provides ketamine infusion therapy for new and existing patients with chronic pain problems from his practice with Iconic Infusions, PLLC. Located in Briarwood Hills, Fayetteville, North Carolina, Dr. Edwards’ ketamine infusion clinic may hold the answers to lastingly easing your chronic pain.
Finding treatment for chronic pain
Chronic pain treatment is often more complex than treatments for acute pain. Acute pain tends to relate to an obvious injury or dysfunction, which can be addressed to ease pain. With acute pain from an injury, you know that your healing journey has a defined end, and you experience gradual improvement after receiving the right treatment.
For most people living with chronic pain, defined as pain that lasts for at least 12 weeks, it’s not nearly that simple. In many cases, it’s not clear what started your chronic pain, or why pain symptoms continue to occur regularly. It often takes a long time for chronic pain patients to find the right treatment, or combination of treatments, to live pain-free.
Dr. Edwards approaches chronic pain holistically, looking at every strategy that could reduce your pain and improve your quality of life. Dr. Edwards’ multidisciplinary ketamine pain protocol focuses on symptom relief and restoring quality of life. Why does Dr. Edwards suggest ketamine to pain patients? It’s because of the unique effects ketamine treatment produces on your brain and nervous system.
How ketamine treats chronic pain
Studies show likely improved outcomes for patients with chronic pain after a series of ketamine infusion treatments. When ketamine interacts with your brain, it transforms your brain activity in multiple ways that benefit you. Here’s how it works.
You can think of ketamine as a key to flipping your brain’s switches in areas like pain perception and mood regulation. Parts of your brain that were overly active during your battle with chronic pain, perceiving pain, and experiencing stress quiet down. At the same time, other excitatory neurons in parts of your brain that haven’t been as active, related to mood stabilization and executive function, come back online and get back to work building new neural structures and pathways.
What to expect with ketamine infusion therapy
Most chronic pain patients need a series of ketamine treatments to see the best results. Talk to Dr. Bryant about pairing your ketamine therapy with other modalities, such as therapeutic massage, for better pain management.
Dr. Bryant delivers your ketamine therapy intravenously, using an intravenous (IV) drip to bypass your digestive system and get you results right away. You rest in comfort in our medspa-style clinic while your infusion takes place. The Iconic Infusions, PLLC team monitors you throughout your treatment, checking for reactions and providing ongoing support.
To find out how ketamine infusion therapy can relieve your chronic pain, contact us online or over the phone today and set up your consultation appointment.
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