Bone pain: current and future treatments

Charlotte Ørsted Frost, Rikke Rie Hansen, Anne-Marie Heegaard

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    Abstract

    Skeletal conditions are common causes of chronic pain and there is an unmet medical need for improved treatment options. Bone pain is currently managed with disease modifying agents and/or analgesics depending on the condition. Disease modifying agents affect the underlying pathophysiology of the disease and reduce as a secondary effect bone pain. Antiresorptive and anabolic agents, such as bisphosphonates and intermittent parathyroid hormone (1–34), respectively, have proven effective as pain relieving agents. Cathepsin K inhibitors and anti-sclerostin antibodies hold, due to their disease modifying effects, promise of a pain relieving effect. NSAIDs and opioids are widely employed in the treatment of bone pain. However, recent preclinical findings demonstrating a unique neuronal innervation of bone tissue and sprouting of sensory nerve fibers open for new treatment possibilities.
    OriginalsprogEngelsk
    TidsskriftCurrent Opinion in Pharmacology
    Vol/bind28
    Sider (fra-til)31-7
    Antal sider7
    ISSN1471-4892
    DOI
    StatusUdgivet - 1 jun. 2016

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