Pain Medicine of the South

Pain Medicine of the South offers ketamine infusions in Knoxville, Tennessee. This is an interventional pain practice, so ketamine here is aimed squarely at pain rather than mood, and it is offered to patients who have worked through other options without relief.

At low subanesthetic doses ketamine becomes an effective pain reliever by blocking NMDA receptors, which stops pain signals traveling from the brain. The relief tends to outlast the drug itself, because ketamine improves nerve connections. Studies suggest relief can last up to three months after an initial series.

The practice highlights fibromyalgia in particular, where widespread pain is tied to those same receptors. Most patients start with a series of infusions, then occasional maintenance. It serves Knoxville and Farragut.