Summary: If all efforts to relieve your pain fail or if the pain of cancer plagues you, an implantable pain pump may be the answer. This device delivers tiny, controlled doses of pain medicine directly to the spinal cord. Since the 1980s, pain pumps have been an accepted, but lesser known alternative to standard medical management for treating unrelieved pain from cancer and non cancerous conditions. We are joined by Ami McCarty, who will describe what a difference her pain pump has made in managing her constant abdominal pain and low back pain. Then, pain specialist Dr. Richard Rauck from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the Carolinas Pain Institute gives us the most current information on this amazing therapy for pain relief. Dr. Richard Rauck is the editor-in-chief of PainPathways, a magazine for acute, chronic and cancer pain. To subscribe or to learn more, visit www.painpathways.org.
