Inflammation & Chronic Pain
INFLAMMATION & CHRONIC PAIN Recent research suggests that our using anti-inflammatory drugs and steroids to relieve acute pain may increase our chances of this becoming long-lasting chronic pain. For decades, we’ve been advised by our medical practitioners to treat pain with anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen (Advil) or naproxen (Aleve). We reach for these when we strain our back or sprain an ankle. But in fact, inflammation might actually be good for us. After reading a short piece with this surprising news in a popular magazine, I went online for the original research at McGill University in Montreal. Here are...