[Analgesic and anti-inflammatory effect of nabumetone in osteo-articular diseases in the acute phase].

Twenty patients, 7 males, 13 females, age range 27-69, average 46 years, with highly painful and inflammatory osteo-articular pathology were treated with a nabumetone preparation (one 1 g capsule at night before going to bed), for a minimum of 6 and a maximum of 10 days (average 9.70 days). Already during the first days of treatment, pain and joint function were improved and reactive edema diminished. The authors believe the drug to have a preventive analgesic effect which may at first consist in an increased pain threshold at the level of capsular receptors and may subsequently involve algoreceptors situated in the tendons. In addition to its analgesic efficacy, the drug has the advantage of being easy to handle neither general nor local side effects were observed. Only two patients complained of digestive side effects (dyspepsia and minor gastric pain in one case; gastric pain and vomiting in the other: both leading to withdrawal of the drug after 6 days). Five patients had excellent results, 9 reported good results, in 5 the result was fair.