Objective In essentially all areas of pain medicine, treatments with improved effectiveness
are needed. Though gains have been made in recent years, suffering from acute
postoperative pain, low back pain, cancer-related pain, and pain from other causes remains
problematic. On the other hand, both science and industry are approaching the problem with
ever more sophisticated techniques. Though not currently in our armamentarium, it seems
likely that at some point we will be faced with the situation where profoundly effective broad …