I read a very interesting piece of research over the weekend that made me once again think “we knew that goes ago!”. “We” being osteopaths and others in the natural health profession.

The study showed how anti-inflammatory drugs make pain to LAST LONGER!

Here’s a quote from the article:

“In a surprising discovery that flies in the face of conventional medicine, McGill University researchers report that treating pain with anti-inflammatory medication, like ibuprofen or aspirin, may promote pain in the long term.The paper, published in Science Translational Medicine, suggests that inflammation, a normal part of injury recovery, helps resolve acute pain and prevents it from becoming chronic. Blocking that inflammation may interfere with this process, leading to harder-to-treat pain”

Well of course, as inflammation is the body’s way of healing itself. It also causes pain to tell you to be careful. They go hand in hand. Here’s some more from the article.

"What we've been doing for decades not only appears to be wrong, but appears to be 180 degrees wrong," says senior study author Jeffrey Mogil, PhD, a professor in the department of psychology at McGill. "You should not be blocking inflammation. You should be letting inflammation happen. That's what stops chronic pain.”
The findings are supported by a separate analysis of 500,000 people in the UK that showed those taking anti-inflammatory drugs to treat their pain were more likely to have pain 2 to 10 years later.”

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/975853?reg=1

Not only does this study support what natural health professionals already knew but supports our treatment of pain. Osteopathy helps release muscles tension, balance the musculoskeletal system and and speed the healing of the body not by medically blocking pain pathways but rather aiding the body’s natural processes.

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