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Food for Special Medical Purposes and Nutraceuticals for Pain: A Narrative Review
INTRODUCTION: The present paper focuses on the possible contribution of food compounds to alleviate symptomatic pains. Chronic pain can more easily be linked to anticipatory signals such as thirst and hunger than it is to sensory perceptions as its chronicity makes it fall under the behavioural cate...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8119521/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33594594 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40122-021-00239-y |
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author | Casale, Roberto Symeonidou, Zaira Ferfeli, Sofia Micheli, Fabrizio Scarsella, Paolo Paladini, Antonella |
author_facet | Casale, Roberto Symeonidou, Zaira Ferfeli, Sofia Micheli, Fabrizio Scarsella, Paolo Paladini, Antonella |
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description | INTRODUCTION: The present paper focuses on the possible contribution of food compounds to alleviate symptomatic pains. Chronic pain can more easily be linked to anticipatory signals such as thirst and hunger than it is to sensory perceptions as its chronicity makes it fall under the behavioural category rather than it does senses. In fact, pain often negatively affects one’s normal feeding behavioural patterns, both directly and indirectly, as it is associated with pain or because of its prostrating effects. NUTRITIONAL COMPOUNDS FOR PAIN: Several nutraceuticals and Foods for Special Medical Purposes (FSMPs) are reported to have significant pain relief efficacy with multiple antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Apart from the aforementioned properties, amino acids, fatty acids, trace elements and vitamins may have a role in the modulation of pain signals to and within the nervous system. CONCLUSION: In our opinion, this review could be of great interest to clinicians, as it offers a complementary perspective in the management of pain. Trials with well-defined patient and symptoms selection and a robust pharmacological design are pivotal points to let these promising compounds become better accepted by the medical community. |
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spelling | pubmed-81195212021-05-14 Food for Special Medical Purposes and Nutraceuticals for Pain: A Narrative Review Casale, Roberto Symeonidou, Zaira Ferfeli, Sofia Micheli, Fabrizio Scarsella, Paolo Paladini, Antonella Pain Ther Review INTRODUCTION: The present paper focuses on the possible contribution of food compounds to alleviate symptomatic pains. Chronic pain can more easily be linked to anticipatory signals such as thirst and hunger than it is to sensory perceptions as its chronicity makes it fall under the behavioural category rather than it does senses. In fact, pain often negatively affects one’s normal feeding behavioural patterns, both directly and indirectly, as it is associated with pain or because of its prostrating effects. NUTRITIONAL COMPOUNDS FOR PAIN: Several nutraceuticals and Foods for Special Medical Purposes (FSMPs) are reported to have significant pain relief efficacy with multiple antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Apart from the aforementioned properties, amino acids, fatty acids, trace elements and vitamins may have a role in the modulation of pain signals to and within the nervous system. CONCLUSION: In our opinion, this review could be of great interest to clinicians, as it offers a complementary perspective in the management of pain. Trials with well-defined patient and symptoms selection and a robust pharmacological design are pivotal points to let these promising compounds become better accepted by the medical community. Springer Healthcare 2021-02-16 2021-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8119521/ /pubmed/33594594 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40122-021-00239-y Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, which permits any non-commercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Review Casale, Roberto Symeonidou, Zaira Ferfeli, Sofia Micheli, Fabrizio Scarsella, Paolo Paladini, Antonella Food for Special Medical Purposes and Nutraceuticals for Pain: A Narrative Review |
title | Food for Special Medical Purposes and Nutraceuticals for Pain: A Narrative Review |
title_full | Food for Special Medical Purposes and Nutraceuticals for Pain: A Narrative Review |
title_fullStr | Food for Special Medical Purposes and Nutraceuticals for Pain: A Narrative Review |
title_full_unstemmed | Food for Special Medical Purposes and Nutraceuticals for Pain: A Narrative Review |
title_short | Food for Special Medical Purposes and Nutraceuticals for Pain: A Narrative Review |
title_sort | food for special medical purposes and nutraceuticals for pain: a narrative review |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8119521/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33594594 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40122-021-00239-y |
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