Pain Course after Total Knee Arthroplasty within a Standardized Pain Management Concept: A Prospective Observational Study.
Melanie SchindlerStephanie SchmitzJan ReinhardPetra JansenJoachim GrifkaAchim BenditzPublished in: Journal of clinical medicine (2022)
The increasing pain score after the first postoperative week is most likely due to more intensive mobilization and physiotherapy in the rehabilitation department. Patients that were female, had a low BMI, and a preoperative valgus leg axis showed a significantly higher postoperative pain scores. Pain management should consider these results in the future to improve patient satisfaction in the postoperative course after TKA.
Keyphrases
- pain management
- chronic pain
- patient satisfaction
- patients undergoing
- postoperative pain
- end stage renal disease
- newly diagnosed
- ejection fraction
- body mass index
- prognostic factors
- peritoneal dialysis
- clinical trial
- patient reported outcomes
- spinal cord injury
- current status
- physical activity
- tertiary care
- spinal cord
- patient reported
- placebo controlled