Up to 40% of people fail to find relief with their pain treatments. At CAREolina Wellness and Infusion Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the team offers an innovative chronic pain solution: ketamine infusions. Many patients who felt frustrated and hopeless have reclaimed their lives thanks to these effective pain management infusions. Want to learn more? Call the office or book your consultation with the experts through online scheduling now.
request an appointmentWhat is chronic pain?
Chronic pain lingers far longer than expected, and it often resists initial treatments. While the exact time frame to diagnose chronic pain varies by medical provider, the CAREolina Wellness and Infusion Center team may diagnose chronic pain if it continues for more than three months.
How does chronic pain affect daily life?
Adding to the frustration of chronic pain are the unwanted changes and limitations it imposes on your daily life. You may experience:
- Difficulty doing the things you enjoy
- Lost time with loved ones
- Inability to care for yourself physically
- Lost mobility
- Poor sleep
- Chronic fatigue
- Anxiety
- Depression
These changes may start slowly and then increase until you hardly recognize your life. Many people with chronic pain experience months, years, or even an entire lifetime of discomfort and even disability if they don’t find the proper care.
How is chronic pain treated?
While there are nearly countless treatments for chronic pain today, some patients don’t respond to oral medication, interventional pain management procedures, or surgery.
Some patients simply want to avoid these treatment approaches. Others may find relief through oral medications, like opioids, but develop an unhealthy dependency on those drugs.
At CAREolina Wellness and Infusion Center, the experienced team offers an innovative alternative to those treatments: ketamine infusions. Ketamine was used as an anesthetic in the 1960s, and in recent decades medical experts have discovered the drug’s other unique benefits.
Many people with chronic pain and treatment-resistant mental health conditions like depression and anxiety experience remarkable relief with ketamine infusions.
Ketamine affects the brain in multiple complex ways. Essentially, it helps you to repair damaged neural pathways while stimulating the growth of new ones. Ketamine is also helpful for treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and other mental health conditions.
Is ketamine right for my chronic pain?
Ketamine can help chronic pain from sources such as:
- Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS)
- Fibromyalgia
- Cancer pain
- Lyme disease
- Chronic headaches, including migraines
- Neuropathy
- Phantom limb pain
- Spinal injury
Ketamine may also help with other types of chronic pain. The best way to find out whether it could work for you is an evaluation at CAREolina Wellness and Infusion Center. The team can make personalized recommendations.
Are you looking for a better solution for pain? Ketamine could be an option to add to your treatment toolbox. Call CAREolina Wellness and Infusion Center or book your appointment online today.