If you’re one of 48 million people in the
either largely ineffective or create serious side effects … you’ll be happy to hear that research that could soon change that. What if you could switch pain on and off – all from your own brain?
A new discovery at Columbia University Medical Center found the switch that controls chronic pain. A protein found in nerve cells acts as a switch for chronic pain, and should soon create a new class of drugs that will block chronic pain by turning this switch off. It’s an enzyme called protein kinase G or PKG. Injury turns PKG on… and it needs to be switched off to relieve pain.
Full details are published on the website of the journal Neuroscience, and will appear in the publication's August issue. Does this news impact you or your workplace?
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