John Claude Krusz, Ph.D., M.D.
ANODYNE Headache and PainCare
5446 Glen Lakes Drive
Dallas, TX 75231
214-750-6664
http://anodynepaincare.org/Clinic_Staff.htm
Transcript: Neuropathic pain medications
In my chronic pain practice, we tend to use a lot of modern medications to slow down excessive firing of nerve trunks. We call that firing, neuropathic pain.
There are a whole family of agents that started out basically as seizure medications. I don’t like that term. We’re not treating seizures but I tend to call them neuronal stabilizing agents or neuromodulating agents
And they take down the firing rates in nerve trunks that are firing excessively, sending painful signals to the brain like from the trigeminal nerve dysfunction. And these modulating agents have all had some utility for reducing chronic pain exacerbations or on-going face pain.