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Postoperative Pain Trajectories and Pain Chronification—an Empirical Typology of Pain Patients
Author(s) -
Astrid Althaus,
Oliver Arránz Becker,
Karl-Heinz Moser,
Eberhard A. Lux,
Friedrich Weber,
Edmund Neugebauer,
C. Simanski
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
pain medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.893
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1526-4637
pISSN - 1526-2375
DOI - 10.1093/pm/pny099
Subject(s) - medicine , acute pain , anesthesia , postoperative pain , intensity (physics) , chronic pain , physical therapy , physics , quantum mechanics
High intensity of acute postsurgical pain is one of the strongest predictors of chronic postsurgical pain (CPSP). We investigated if different types of patients with distinct combinations of initial pain intensity and rate of pain resolution exhibit different risks for increased pain intensity six months after surgery.

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