You've likely heard about ketamine, but the key takeaway is that it's a medicine that can help reduce mental and physical suffering if you haven't found therapy or medicine that works for your condition. What Is Ketamine? According to the World Health Organization (WHO), “Ketamine is a versatile medicine and…
Everyone, thanks to the structure of the human brain and other factors, perceives discomfort in different ways. We can think of acute, localized pain as a temporary annoyance. But other pain, which lasts for months or longer without a cause, may then be described as chronic pain.Read More
What is chronic pain? “Chronic pain lasts months or years and happens in all parts of the body. It interferes with daily life and can lead to depression and anxiety. The first step in treatment is to find and treat the cause. When that isn't possible, the most effective approach…
Most people experience pain, mostly acute, which normally has a specific cause and disappears on its own. But some pain without an obvious cause lingers for six months or more, progressively becoming chronic and interfering with your daily life. Therapy and certain medicine like ketamine may help reduce its symptoms.Read…
Is Chronic Pain Forever? Pain itself is not really a condition but is most often a symptom of some underlying injury or illness. In most cases, this pain -- what is known as acute pain -- goes away after your injury or illness has healed. If it doesn’t go away,…
What Is PTSD? PTSD can make your everyday life a much more daunting endeavor. It transforms your hobbies and responsibilities into seemingly herculean tasks. You may feel like you can’t carry on the same lifestyle as you did before and find that you grow more and more socially isolated. Symptoms…
Feeling Depressed? You Are Not Alone! More than 17 million American adults suffer from depression in a given year. If you were to ask all 17 million of them - each and everyone - why they feel depressed, you’re likely going to get 17 million different answers. Some of them…
These are unprecedented times in the world these days. Every day we are given statistics on the number of cases, deaths, and restrictions to help stop the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19). As a healthcare worker, I feel I am doing my best to serve my patients needs. It is a…
March is self-injury and self-harm awareness month. I would like to take this opportunity to let you know what self-harm is. Typically self-harm is anything someone does to intentionally injure themselves to deal with emotional pain. Examples of self-harm include behaviors like cutting, banging your head, or burning of the…
Many of you may or may not have heard that Spravato (Esketamine), a nasal spray, was approved by the US FDA in March of 2019 for treatment-resistant depression. This new drug is a ketamine cousin since it is a portion of the ketamine molecule. It has been touted as a…
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