Ketamine IV Infusion Therapy
Find out if ketamine infusions are right for you. If you have chronic pain that has not responded to treatment, you don’t have to suffer in silence. Our specialists work with you to determine if IV ketamine infusions may help reduce your pain.
Mental health care providers have found that it can successfully treat some types of treatment-resistant mental health conditions. And pain researchers have learned that it delivers welcome relief for some types of chronic pain.
IV Ketamine infusion therapy is not the first line of treatment. We treat chronic pain that has failed all other treatment modalities. Patients that have IV ketamine infusions for mental health conditions must be referred by their current treating psychiatrist or mental health professional.
How Does it Work?
Ketamine acts as an inhibitor of the NMDA receptor (a pain receptor in the spinal cord) to interfere with pain transmission throughout the body. It disrupts the neurotransmitter (brain chemical) glutamate. Glutamate is involved with mood and pain recognition. IV Ketamine infusion is now used to treat symptoms of: