A major Cochrane review found no convincing evidence that ketamine or similar NMDA-blocking drugs improve chronic non-cancer ...

A sweeping review of 67 trials has cast doubt on the use of ketamine and similar NMDA receptor antagonists for chronic pain relief. While ketamine is frequently prescribed off-label for conditions ...

The off-label use of ketamine to treat chronic pain is not supported by scientific evidence, a new Cochrane review has found.

An extensive analysis shows scant evidence that ketamine or other NMDA receptor agonists reduce chronic noncancer pain but ...

Ketamine is regularly used for the treatment of chronic pain, but a new report shows there is no clear evidence of its benefit.The off-label use of ...

Researchers cautioned that the existing evidence base is too poor to draw any solid conclusions on whether ketamine can help ...

But Tankha, her pain specialist, wouldn’t give up. He suggested Ryan try ketamine infusions, which he says have been used as a treatment for chronic pain since the 1980s.

Ketamine acts quickly in the body, and it is also cleared quickly, within hours. Yet Ryan and others who use it for chronic pain say the relief they get after their treatments lasts for months.

Exactly how ketamine works to help chronic pain is unclear. Studies show that it’s much more complex than we previously thought. We know that ketamine attaches to specific areas of the spinal ...

Ketamine acts quickly in the body, and it is also cleared quickly, within hours. Yet Ryan and others who use it for chronic pain say the relief they get after their treatments lasts for months.

Tankha says he is hoping to raise enough money to properly study ketamine’s utility for chronic pain. “The binding to the receptor is over in maybe 10 to 15 minutes, maybe a couple hours, if ...