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Median Arcuate Ligament Syndrome (MALS)

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@kariulrich

Thank you for mentioning alternatives and helpful additions to pain medications @llwortman. Mindfulness is a great tool for decreasing the anxiety that comes along with MALS pain and symptoms. I do believe some MALS patients need long-term pain medications in addition to alternative therapies. There has been so much opioid shaming in the media and misinformation, that chronic pain patients are suffering unnecessarily.

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Just want to mention pain I had after MALS surgery- moving diaphragm,where he ligament inserted, was painful. I don’t do well on opioids, so I was given gabapentin. It’s very good for nerve pain and was perfect during healing time.