The future holds the promise that new drugs will be developed that are not symptom-modifying drugs that simply mask the problem, as we have now, but that will be disease-modifying drugs that will actually go right to the root of the problem and attack those glial cells, or those pernicious proteins that the glial cells elaborate, that spill over and cause this central nervous system wind-up, or plasticity, that so is capable of distorting and amplifying the sensory experience that we call pain.
Budućnost nam pruža nadu da će biti otkriveni novi lijekovi koje neće uklanjati samo simptome koji jednostavno maskiraju problem. kao što imamo sada, nego da će postojati lijekovi koji uklanjaju bolest koji će zapravo ići do korijena problema i napasti te glijalne stanice ili štetne proteine koje stvaraju glijalne stanice, koje se prospu i uzrokuju paralizu središnjeg živčanog sustava, ili plastičnost, koja može iskriviti i pojačati osjetilno iskustvo koje nazivamo bol.