by Karuna Labs | Nov 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
At Karuna Labs, we are pioneering a new approach to managing chronic pain in the face of increasing opioid dependence/addiction and expensive and invasive surgical treatment. We have combined proven biopsychosocial treatments and moved them into the virtual...
by Karuna Labs | Jul 9, 2019 | Uncategorized
Robert Johnson PT, DPT, OCS Imagine having chronic, persistent pain. Twenty to 25% of Americans have it. They cannot find an answer. They have been around the block with their pain, consulting surgeons, therapists, body-workers, chiropractors, acupuncturists, and...
by Karuna Labs | Jun 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
Kris Beebe, MS, MPT Chronic Pain Management in the Past… I had the great fortune to work as a physical therapist under Hubert Rosomoff, MD, a neurosurgeon and a pioneer in pain medicine. Dr. Rosomoff believed that chronic pain was generally a nonsurgical...
by Karuna Labs | Jun 6, 2019 | Uncategorized
Michael Trujillo, PhD Vice President of Clinical Affairs, Karuna Labs, Inc. Figure 1: A schematic of the central nociceptive (pain) pathway. In acute pain, excitability is temporarily increased in response to painful stimuli such as Central Sensitization Pain...
by Karuna Labs | Jun 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
Our contemporary understanding of pain and the brain is allowing us to develop strategies and approaches to reducing and even eliminating pain. For example, we understand more clearly the differences between acute pain (hours, days, or weeks of pain) and chronic pain...