One study presented found lower doses of naproxen were as effective at reducing pain as standard traditional doses. The time to pain relief was also reduced at just over one hour for the nano-formulation of naproxen 400 mg, more than three hours for placebo and an hour and a half for the standard naproxen 500 mg dose.
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