Would like to have seen an opioid-ibuprofen combo in the mix. Or ibuprofen and acacetamenophine each alone. For the class of injury described, swelling and inflamation will be very common, and ibuprofen is better suited than acetamenophine for this.
Class of injury is very important too: limb injuries producing acute pain are more likely to be a type where time, even just 2 hours, will have a leveling effect on pain, while one class or combination of drugs might provide better instant relief.
Finally, we have these short term acute pain examples and long term chronic pain, but medium term acute pain in the range of days to weeks might be a primary area of risk for new addictions where a patient requires more than a few doses but doesn't ask the patient to shift their outlook on how they deal with pain and adjust to it that chronic pain patient may have to do, with or without opiods. If the pain is short term in this way, the potent opioid pills can be seen as a quick fix that doesn't take as much effort as rethinking "acceptable" levels of pain.
Class of injury is very important too: limb injuries producing acute pain are more likely to be a type where time, even just 2 hours, will have a leveling effect on pain, while one class or combination of drugs might provide better instant relief.
Finally, we have these short term acute pain examples and long term chronic pain, but medium term acute pain in the range of days to weeks might be a primary area of risk for new addictions where a patient requires more than a few doses but doesn't ask the patient to shift their outlook on how they deal with pain and adjust to it that chronic pain patient may have to do, with or without opiods. If the pain is short term in this way, the potent opioid pills can be seen as a quick fix that doesn't take as much effort as rethinking "acceptable" levels of pain.