ArticleJournal of children's orthopaedics2021
Predictors of persistent postoperative pain after surgery for idiopathic scoliosis.
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- Does Distal Fusion Increase Pain-or Reflect Baseline Pain Risk in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis With Spondylolysis?Global spine journal · 2026Article
- Preoperative Psychological Factors and Early Postoperative Pain After Posterior Spinal Fusion for Scoliosis: A Retrospective Preliminary Study.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Article
- Telerehabilitation After Surgery in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Prediction of Postoperative Pain and Side Effects of Patient-Controlled Analgesia in Pediatric Orthopedic Patients Using Machine Learning: A Retrospective Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Pain during the first year after scoliosis surgery in adolescents, an exploratory, prospective cohort study.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2024Article
- The evolution of pre-operative SRS scores over time in patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.Spine deformity · 2023Article
- Clinical Update on Patient-Controlled Analgesia for Acute Postoperative Pain.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
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Abstract
purposeTo identify factors contributing to persistent postoperative pain in patients treated surgically for idiopathic scoliosis.
methodsIn total, 280 patients aged ten through 25 years at surgery, were identified in the Swedish Spine registry; all having preoperative and postoperative visual analogue scale (VAS) for back pain scores. The patients were divided into a high and low postoperative pain group based on the reported postoperative VAS for back pain scores (by using 45 mm on the 0 mm to 100 mm VAS scale as a cut-off). The patient-reported questionnaire included VAS for back pain, the 3-level version of EuroQol 5-dimensional (EQ-5D-3L) instrument, the EuroQol VAS (EQ-VAS) and the Scoliosis Research Society 22r instrument (SRS-22r). Predictors of postoperative back pain were searched in the preoperative data.
resultsThe 67 (24%) patients that reported high postoperative VAS back pain (> 45 mm) also reported lower postoperative EQ-5D-3L, EQ-VAS and SRS-22r than patients with low postoperative VAS back pain (all p < 0.001). Two preoperative variables were independently associated with postoperative pain; each millimetre increase in preoperative VAS back pain (on the 0 mm to 100 mm scale) was associated with a higher risk of being in the high postoperative back pain group (odds ratio (OR) 1.03; 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.02 to 1.05) and each 1 point decrease on the preoperative SRS-22r mental health (scale from 1 to 5) was associated with a higher risk of being in the high postoperative back pain group (OR 1.68; 95% CI 1.03 to 2.73).
conclusionHigh preoperative back pain and low preoperative mental health are independent predictors of back pain after surgery for idiopathic scoliosis. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: III.
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