Pain Patch Review

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One of the latest technologies I have come across was a product that is similar to what I would call a pain patch. A pain patch was something that a person wore and their body would absorb the medication during the time they wore such patch. This new product is an elastic film that has studded biocompatible microcapsules that are packed with nanoparticles that can be filled with whatever drugs are needed (Di, Yao, Ye, Cui, yu, Ghosh, Zhu, & Gu. (2015). The simplicity of how it works is easy. The medication slowly leaks out of the nanoparticles and are stored in the microcapsules. When the patient’s movements stretch the elastic film, it stretches the microcapsules – enlarging the surface area and it squeezes some of the stored medication out

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