what is pharmacologic pain relief?

Answer 1

Here's a topic on that with more links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacology

Answer 2

Pharmacologic pain relief is "prescribed" medication from licenced md for pain relief.

Answer 3

Actually, (& I am a medical professional), any type of pain relief from any type of medicine is phamacologic, this can be Tylenol, Morphine, Ben-Gay, or Lanacaine. Non-phamocologic is anything else such as ice compress, chiropractic, meditation, stretching exercises, heat pad, hypnosis, whatever.

Answer 4

Analgesics (pain killer):
Drugs, which reduce or abolish pain sensation, are called analgesics.
•Opioid analgesics: - have analgesic as well as sedative effects. Repeated use may cause dependance. For example Pethidine, Morphine, Pentazocine.
•Non-opioid analgesics: have no sedative effects, thus chance of dependence is absolutely absent. They are effective for somatic pain only. Visceral pain, ischaemic pain and cut injury or operational pains (where nerve endings are exposed) are not reduced.

If you mean how does these work then

They block pain sensitizing mechanism of bradykinin, 5-HT & histamines and raise threshold to pain perception. Initially they are not effective to control tenderness due to prostaglandins.

Answer 5

It sounds like the use of prescribed medications (such as Percoden) to alleviate physical pain.

Answer 6

Very simply it's the pain relievers that you can't get unless your doctor writes a script for it.THE GOOD STUFF (percocet,darvocet,morphine,dilaudid,anything with codeine.)top that list.

Answer 7

Anything you can ingest from a Drug Store over the counter or script from a doctor.

Answer 8

pain medication, such as tylenol, motrin etc etc.

Answer 9

it stops the senthysis of prostaglandin