{"id":1180,"date":"2025-10-25T22:32:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T02:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/?p=1180"},"modified":"2025-10-25T22:33:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T02:33:01","slug":"tramadol-versus-placebo-for-chronic-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/?p=1180","title":{"rendered":"Tramadol versus placebo for chronic pain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I\u2019ve never routinely used tramadol in my practice, as I\u2019ve never been fully convinced of its therapeutic role. I acknowledge my bias toward this medication; however, a recent article in BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine discussed its use in reducing chronic pain, noting only a low certainty of evidence. Given the current evidence, the risks associated with tramadol use in pain management seem to outweigh its limited therapeutic benefit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ebm.bmj.com\/content\/early\/2025\/09\/26\/bmjebm-2025-114101\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ebm.bmj.com\/content\/early\/2025\/09\/26\/bmjebm-2025-114101\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Link to Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve never routinely used tramadol in my practice, as I\u2019ve never been fully convinced of its therapeutic role. I acknowledge my bias toward this medication; however, a recent article in BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine discussed its use in reducing chronic pain, noting only a low certainty of evidence. Given the current evidence, the risks associated with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,13,14,15,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-em","category-pgy1","category-pgy2","category-pgy3","category-pgy4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1181,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions\/1181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}