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How To Manage The Pain In Ankylosing Spondilytis?

I am suffering Ankylosing Spondilytis for around 10 years. It has started to affect my neck and become Cervical Spondilytis. Kindly tell me the medication for the pain management. I surely know that the disease is incurable, the only soultion being surgery which is beyond my bearance.
posted on Fri, 14 Mar 2014
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Hello,

I am sorry to hear that you have AS. medication are many to look for but that has to take on the basis of availability. Different countries have different drugs too.

Taking under the guidance of the orthopedist should be of good choice. But this is symptomatic and will be only for short duration course.

For the longer run, you need to do exercise for the muscles which are getting involved and also hot water fermentation to improve vascular supply.

In my clinical experience, most cases perform well with a combination of drug and exercise therapy.

We advice most patients to avoid more of pain killers as there might be chances of having kidney issue off late and which becomes difficult to consider it as an treatable condition.

So we make them focus more on exercise therapy to improve muscle strength and reduce pain.

Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.

Take care

Regards,
Jay Indravadan Patel, Physical Therapist or Physiotherapist
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How To Manage The Pain In Ankylosing Spondilytis?

Hello, I am sorry to hear that you have AS. medication are many to look for but that has to take on the basis of availability. Different countries have different drugs too. Taking under the guidance of the orthopedist should be of good choice. But this is symptomatic and will be only for short duration course. For the longer run, you need to do exercise for the muscles which are getting involved and also hot water fermentation to improve vascular supply. In my clinical experience, most cases perform well with a combination of drug and exercise therapy. We advice most patients to avoid more of pain killers as there might be chances of having kidney issue off late and which becomes difficult to consider it as an treatable condition. So we make them focus more on exercise therapy to improve muscle strength and reduce pain. Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further. Take care Regards, Jay Indravadan Patel, Physical Therapist or Physiotherapist