How can bone pain be treated?

How can bone pain be treated?

Marc Darrow (Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Joint Rehabilitation Sports Medical Center, Inc. ) gives expert video advice on: What are some specific types of chronic pain?; What is "somatic pain"?; How is somatic pain treated? and more...

Bone pain is often treated with anti-inflammatory medication, which seems very simple because we don't think of anti-inflammatories as one of the big guns in medicine. Many years ago, people that had bone pain were often treated with narcotics and other things of that nature, which were called the big guns of analgesics. Since then there have been studies that have shown that anti-inflammatories often do an even better job of reducing the inflammation of whatever it is that's causing the bone pain.