ArticlePain2017
Day-to-day experience in resolution of pain after surgery.
Article in Pain, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 32 citations in OpenAlex.
- To be mindful of the breath or pain: Comparing two brief preoperative mindfulness techniques for total joint arthroplasty patients.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2021Trial
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- Pain, function, and acute neuropathic pain up to one month after surgery: a registry-based analysis.Pain reports · 2026Article
- Persistent Postpartum Pain After Elective Cesarean Section Is Not Only Persistent Postsurgical Pain-A Retrospective Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- Following Evidence-Based Recommendations for Perioperative Pain Management after Cesarean Section Is Associated with Better Pain-Related Outcomes: Analysis of Registry Data.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Psychiatric Comorbidities Associated with Persistent Postoperative Opioid Use.Current pain and headache reports · 2022Review
- A Brief Measure Assessing Adolescents' Daily In-Hospital Function Predicts Pain and Health Outcomes at Home After Major Surgery.Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2022Article
- Trajectories, Risk Factors, and Impact of Persistent Pain After Major Musculoskeletal Surgery in Adolescents: A Replication Study.The journal of pain · 2022Observational
- AAAPT: Assessment of the Acute Pain Trajectory.Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2021Article
- Subacute Pain Trajectories following major musculoskeletal surgery in adolescents: A Pilot Study.Canadian journal of pain = Revue canadienne de la douleur · 2020Article
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- Preoperative Psychosocial and Psychophysical Phenotypes as Predictors of Acute Pain Outcomes After Breast Surgery.The journal of pain · 2019Observational
- Capsaicin-induced pain and sensitisation in the postpartum period.British journal of anaesthesia · 2019Article
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- Classification of acute pain trajectory after breast cancer surgery identifies patients at risk for persistent pain: a prospective observational study.Journal of pain research · 2018Article
- Reduction of opioid use after orthopedic surgery: a scoping review.Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgieArticle
- Temporal and sex differences in the role of BDNF/TrkB signaling in hyperalgesic priming in mice and rats.Neurobiology of pain (Cambridge, Mass.)Article
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Abstract
We know little about the individual pain experience of patients recovering from surgery in the first weeks after hospital discharge. Here, we examine individual differences in the day-to-day experience after 2 major surgeries: lower limb total major joint arthroplasty (TJA) and cesarean delivery (CD). Fifty-five TJA patients and 157 CD patients were recruited to complete questionnaires and record their daily pain experiences after surgery. After hospital discharge, patients recorded their pain intensity once daily for 60 days (CD) or twice daily for 2 weeks, once daily for 2 weeks, weekly for 8 weeks, and monthly for 3 months (TJA). Pain scores were modeled using growth curve and Bayesian change-point models. Individual differences in the model fits were examined for evidence of day-to-day differences in pain. A log time model was the simplest model that fit the data, but examination of the residuals revealed high autocorrelation representing misspecification. A change-point model fit the data better and revealed that the form of recovery fundamentally changed between days 10 and 21 after surgery. These data add meaningfully to our understanding of recovery from pain after surgery by extending the period of frequent observations a few days after surgery to a 2-month period. These high time resolution data suggest that there is a typical experience of pain resolution after surgery, but that meaningful subpopulations of experience may exist. They also indicate that a transition occurs within 1 month after surgery from 1 pattern of change in pain over time to another.
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