Topical Analgesia
Topical pain treatments in the form of analgesic creams have many advantages:
- Local application only on the pain area where relief is needed.
- (Nearly) no side effects
- Higher concentration of the analgesic at the pain area
- Fast onset of action (<30 minutes)
- Low or no systemic drug levels
- Absence of drug-drug interactions
- No interference with other drug metabolisms
- Improvement of compliance
- No risk of dependency or abuse