Disability and pain after anterior cervical decompression and fusion: A group-based trajectory analysis.

Sara S Widbom-KolhanenKatri I PernaaRoosa E LintuahoAnna KotkansaloMikhail Saltychev

Published in: Scandinavian journal of surgery : SJS : official organ for the Finnish Surgical Society and the Scandinavian Surgical Society (2024)

After the ACDF, dissimilar developmental trajectories of pain and disability were identified between the patient clusters. While sex, preoperative pain duration, and body weight were not associated with differences in improvement in disability level, female sex and longer duration of preoperative pain were correlated with more severe neck and arm pain after surgery.

Keyphrases

chronic pain
pain management
neuropathic pain
multiple sclerosis
body weight
patients undergoing
spinal cord injury
depressive symptoms