ArticlePain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses2023
Pilot Investigation of Somatosensory Functioning and Pain Catastrophizing in Pediatric Spinal Fusion Surgery.
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- Sex-specific pain management and outcomes in pediatric elective posterior spinal fusion: a database review.Spine deformity · 2026Pooled it
- Prognostic factors of chronic postsurgical pain in children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Regional anesthesia and pain medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Prevalence of and recommendation for measuring chronic postsurgical pain in children: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis.Regional anesthesia and pain medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Achieving "ideal" sagittal alignment does not influence HRQoL outcomes 5 years following PSF for lenke 1 AIS.Spine deformity · 2026Article
- Pre-surgical quantitative sensory testing and post-surgical pain among adolescents undergoing spinal fusion surgery: A longitudinal cohort study.The journal of pain · 2026Article
- Preoperative Psychological Factors and Early Postoperative Pain After Posterior Spinal Fusion for Scoliosis: A Retrospective Preliminary Study.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Article
- Presurgical Prognostic Factors for Chronic Postsurgical Pain Across Developmental Stages in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of pain research · 2026Review
- Chronic postsurgical pain in young children: Prevalence, pain trajectories and physical and psychological prognostic factors.The journal of pain · 2025Observational
- Interactive interdisciplinary pain research in adolescent and young adult females: a pilot investigation of brain, physiological, and emotional functioning following orthopedic surgery.Journal of pediatric psychology · 2025Article
- "It Helped Me Understand What I Was Walking into:" Youth and Caregiver Acceptability and Satisfaction with a Psychological Perioperative Pain Management Intervention.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Somatosensory and prefrontal cortex activity relates to emotional outcomes and hair cortisol concentration in chronic postsurgical pain.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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Abstract
purposeChronic post-surgical pain (CPSP) is a significant concern and contributes to the opioid epidemic; however, little is known about CPSP in young people.
designThis prospective study aimed to identify sensory, psychological, and demographic factors that may increase the risk of CPSP after spinal fusion surgery for children and adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis.
methods32 children and adolescents from two children's hospitals completed quantitative sensory testing (QST) and the Pain Catastrophizing Scale Child (PCS-C) pre-and 4-6 months post spinal fusion surgery. Between-group differences were assessed using an independent samples t-test. Pearson's correlations and stepwise linear regression were used to assess the relationship between variables at both time points.
results56% of patients endorsed pain post-surgery. They were more sensitive tomechanical detection on both a control non-pain site (r = -2.87, p = .004) and the back (r = -1.83, p = .04), as well as pressure pain (r=-2.37, p = .01) on the back. This group also reported worse pain scores pre-surgery. Pre-surgery helplessness positively correlated with preoperative pain (r = .67 p < .001), and age was negatively correlated with the post-surgical catastrophizing total score (r =-.39, p = .05), suggesting that younger patients endorsed more pain-related worry after surgery.
conclusionsPatients who present with pain during their preoperative appointment may need to be monitored with increased vigilance throughout the perioperative period, possibly with bedside QST and psychological questionnaires, which nurses could administer. Biobehavioral interventions targeting pain intensity and feelings of helplessness and anxiety during the preoperative period may alleviate the transition to CPSP.
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