Pain management - discussion thread

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Apologies for this tangential post but I didn't want to start a new thread for this and it is relevant here.

There is an article on pain management that is suggesting there will be non-opioid targeted pain relievers in the near future due to some research work in the US.

Article (longish):

https://nautil.us/painkillers-that-dont-kill-14873/

With the diversity of pain in mind, over the past decade Bean and Woolf have devoted much of their energy to learning about different nociceptor cell types. Nociceptors, specialized peripheral sensory neurons that sense noxious stimuli, were discovered in 1906 by Charles Scott Sherrington, an English scientist who later won the Nobel Prize for related work.12 These neurons convert potentially damaging stimuli into electrical signals—action potentials—that are then relayed to higher brain centers. But different types of nociceptors respond to different types of stimuli. Thus, the nociceptors that send messages notifying us of the onset of appendicitis are distinct from those that make our knees and hips feel as creaky as the Tin Man when we get out of bed.13