Neuropathic pain often requires anti-neuropathic pain medications like gabapentinoids.

“This is the kind of pain that you get and you experienced with ridicular pain. And ribbicular pain means uh in this case injury to a nerve root coming out of your spine. It's this sharp radiating pain if you've got it in your lower back that radiates down in down your leg typically below your knee into your foot. This can be very challenging to treat with common analesics. We tend to draw upon different categories of medications for this. These are, broadly speaking, anti-neuropathic pain drugs.”