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Opportunities in the Rapidly Growing Pain Management Sector

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Pain Management Market to Grow to $81.9 Billion by 2026

 

“No pain, no gain” is a motivational gym saying heard for years. Investors have found the saying also applies to portfolio gains.  The pain management industry is rapidly growing and now provides an even broader spectrum of publicly traded opportunities. Why? Reduced opioid use has opened a path for inventive new therapeutics to become the new go-to where an opioid would have been prescribed previously.  Estimates on the potential for the industry were just released in a report by Zion Market Research. The report demonstrates the pain management therapeutics industry is expected to amass earnings of about $81.9 billion by 2026. This is an increase of $16.3 billion over 2019 earnings.

Background:

Treatment of chronic pain has a large base as a major healthcare service. This base provides a solid footing for the business of pain management therapeutics.  Pain-relieving drugs such as opioids have provided help to patients with severe pain, but their usage should be short-term in duration or to treat pain in the terminally ill. New protocols based on this reality leave many sufferers that had relied on addictive pharmaceuticals needing new alternatives.

Primary pharmaceutical segments in Pain Management:

  • Anesthetics
  • NSAIDS
  • Anticonvulsants
  • Antidepressants
  • Anti-migraine agents
  • Non-narcotic analgesics

Major uses for which they are indicated include: 

  • Neuropathic Pain
  • Arthritic Pain
  • Cancer pain
  • Post-operative Pain
  • Chronic Back Pain
  • Fibromyalgia
  • A migraine


Market
Growth Dynamics

As the number of patients affected with chronic pain increases among an aging population, and opioid prescriptions come under more scrutiny, medical treatments, including non-pharmacologic therapies, and interventional pain treatments, have increased. The pain management therapeutics market is expected to continue its accelerated growth over the next couple of years. This is expected to translate into a $16.3 billion expansion of industry earnings over the next few years, according to the Zion report.  Additionally, they expect, growth in the number of surgeries along with an increase in automotive accidents and sports injuries. This will also serve to lift this market involved in helping sufferers.

Expansion
Prospects

The anticipated growth of pain management therapeutics within North American healthcare is expected to happen on several fronts. Players include the nimble, creative growth companies as well as the huge established names. Large companies involved in the segment include Novartis AG, Purdue Pharma L.P., AstraZeneca Plc., Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, GlaxoSmithKline Plc., Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., Pfizer Inc., Depomed, Inc., Johnson & Johnson Services, Inc., Endo International Plc., Merck & Co., Inc., and Abbott Laboratories. These are big corporations where successful individual products aren’t as impactful to the bottom line or stock price movement.

The smaller more nimble prospects are worth learning about. There are a number of them that have developed solutions that are just now becoming adopted and substituted for old methods of treatment. Below is a list of six companies in this space that may be worth becoming familiar with:

NanoVibronix
Inc. (
NAOVis engaged in manufacturing of noninvasive biological response-activating devices which target wound healing and pain therapy, without the assistance of medical professionals. The primary products of the company include WoundShield which is patch-based therapeutic ultrasound device to help regenerate tissue and healing by using ultrasound to increase local capillary perfusion and tissue oxygenation; PainShield which is a disposable patch-based therapeutic ultrasound technology to treat pain, muscle spasm and joint contractures; and UroShield which is an ultrasound-based product designed to prevent bacterial colonization and biofilm in urinary catheters, increase antibiotic efficacy and decrease pain. Most of the company’s revenue comes from the U.S. $NAOV is listed on the Nasdaq exchange.

Bioelectronics Corp. (BIEL) is an electroceutical company. It develops wearable, neuromodulation devices to safely mitigate neurological diseases. Its product line includes Actipatch Musculoskeletal Pain Therapy, Allay menstrual pain therapy, Smart insole heel pain therapy and Recovery RX post-operative and Chronic wounds therapy. The company sells its products to wholesale distributors, directly to hospitals and clinics, and consumers. $BIEL trades OTC.

 

 

Baudax Bio Inc.
(
BXRX) is a Pharmaceutical company. The company develops and commercialize products for hospital and related acute care settings. Products in its pipeline include two novel neuromuscular blocking agents, or NMBAs, and a related proprietary chemical reversal agent and Dex-IN. $BXRX is listed on the Nasdaq exchange.

Virpax
Pharmaceuticals Inc. (
VRPX) is a preclinical stage biopharmaceutical company. The company is focused on developing pharmaceutical product candidates for pain management. Its product portfolio includes Topical metered-dose spray, Liposomal in Hydrogel encapsulation, and Enkephalin Intranasal spray. $VRPX is listed on the Nasdaq exchange.

Heron
Therapeutics Inc. (
HRTX) is a commercial-stage biotechnology company. It’s focused on improving the lives of patients by developing treatments that address some of the unmet patient needs. The company’s product portfolio consists of SUSTOL and CINVANTI. Its pipeline product is HTX-011. $HRTX is listed on the Nasdaq exchange.

Medx Health
Corp. (
MDXHF) is engaged in the development, manufacturing, and marketing of skin-related screening tools and phototherapy devices for pain relief and tissue repair. Its two main product lines are; SIAscopy, a medical device technology that is used to scan skin for suspicious moles and lesions; and Phototherapeutic medical devices, which use light energy in lower-level laser and LED to provide effective treatment of pain and tissue damage in the rehabilitation market. It derives key revenue from the sale of Phototherapeutic lasers. Its product portfolio includes SIAscopy, MoleMate, SIMSYS, MedX Home System, Rehab Portable Laser, Debtal Laser Console System and others. The company sells its products internationally, of which prime revenue is generated in Canada and the US. $MDXHF trades OTC.

Take-Away

Heightened awareness of the risks associated with prescribing opioids coupled with an aging populous is providing opportunities for companies to develop new methods to minimize suffering; this includes medical devices to treat or assess causes, and novel medicines. Investors could benefit from growing their awareness of this therapeutic space and individual companies operating in the pain management sector.

There is usually no better way to understand a company than letting management explain the products and their uses. A virtual conference with management from the above six companies will take place on October 6. There is no cost to register or attend some or all of the sessions.

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 Sources:

https://www.zionmarketresearch.com/news/pain-management-therapeutics-market

https://channelchek.vercel.app/news-channel/New_Developments_in_Pain_Management___a_NobleCon_Online_Investor_Event___Presenting_Companies

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