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Wednesday, 18 September 2019 / Published in Health & Wellness

Pain Relief Without Opioids

In an effort to decrease opioid use and curb the current trend of opioid misuse, addiction, and overdose deaths, researchers at Rush University Medical Center have developed a strategy of implementing opioid-sparing multimodal analgesia (MMA) to manage pain in surgical patients.

“This new pain management approach reduces narcotic use and minimizes hospitalization, making most minimally invasive spine surgeries outpatient procedures, which has a positive impact on patient satisfaction pain scores,” said Dr. Kern Singh, a professor in the Rush Department of Orthopedic Surgery and co-director of the Minimally Invasive Spine Institute at Rush.

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