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Intraspinal Drug Therapy
Severe, widespread chronic pain may not be manageable by traditional systematic therapy for some patients. Some of these patients receive only a little pain relief and experience unpleasant or dangerous side effects. For certain patients, intraspinal morphine delivery provides improved pain control along with reduced side effects because the drug is targeted to spinal cord receptors. The amount of medications and timing of delivery can be non-invasively adjusted using an external programmer so that pain therapy can be given according to each patient's needs. Refilling of the drug pump reservoir is accomplished by needle access.
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