Could biomarkers mean better pain treatment?
Briefly

After coming under Russo's care, it took three long years to find a way to control her migraines. The problem was not a shortage of options... However, finding the right treatment for each person with chronic pain is currently an excruciating game of trial and error, testing treatments one by one in the hope of finding a match.
We finally got control of her migraines on the 24th medication trial. Today, there are dozens of non-opioid drugs with pain-relieving benefits... But the guesswork means that chronic pain care is still a highly frustrating process for patients and clinicians.
The issue is not that we're short of quality pain treatments. The issue is that we don't know how to match them up to the right patient.
Read at Nature
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