According to a report released in July 2011 by the IOM, over 116 million US adults are burdened by Chronic Pain. The costs incurred due to this affliction are higher than cardiovascular disease, cancer and diabetes combined. They also mention that 20% of pain prescriptions are fraudulent. Abuse of narcotics prescribed by pain practitioners is very high.

According to the 2010 media planner of Pain Medicine News, over 100,000 pain practitioners prescribed $23.5 billion in pain medication in 2009 alone.

According to a health special published by Time magazine in its March 7th 2011 issue, chronic pain is now being recognized as a disease rather than as a consequence of a disease. This has vast implications.

Finally, there has been no way to measure the severity and seriousness of pain. An article in the July 5th 2011 issue of the Walt Street Journal highlights this fact very well. However, help is at hand. Chronic Pain affects the Autonomic Nervous System and we have been able to show that ANS monitoring of chronic pain patients allows one to measure a baseline and monitor the improvement in the pain condition.

The solution offered by Dyansys – the ANSiscope/P-STIM solution- allows the pain practitioner to treat the patient with a non-narcotic methodology and allows him/her to monitor the progress of the patient as the treatment unfolds. The non-narcotic methodology has actually been very well known as cranial electro stimulation (CES). The P-STIM is a very simple and elegant way to perform CES.