Media Article: "Cooling 'relieves chronic pain'"

For sufferers of ME/CFS/Fibromyalgia, chronic pain can be all too common. Now, the University of Edinburgh has conducted research to suggest that a chemical compound, when applied to the skin, can relieve the effects of chronic pain.

(…) "Lead researcher Susan Fleetwood-Walker, professor of pain biology at the Centre for Neuroscience Research, Edinburgh University, said: "We are crying out for new treatments. Chronic pain can have an awful effect on a person's life quality." (…) "Professor Fleetwood-Walker and colleagues investigated the analgesic qualities of a chemical called icilin, which is related to menthol." (…) "Professor Fleetwood-Walker said, "One of the exciting things about icilin is that it can be used in minute concentrations and it is sufficient to just paint it on the surface of the skin where the pain is to cause a painkilling effect that could last for hours afterwards." BBC Health News, 22 August 2006

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