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Chronic postsurgical pain is a frequent complication with an incidence of 25% - 60% in ankle arthroplasty and around 8% in arthrodesis after ankle surgery.
According to a recently issued
prospective comparative study in the Foot & Ankle International Journal,
individuals with more severe preoperative pain and psychological distress show
a higher risk of being suffered from acute and chronic pain following ankle
surgery despite the surgery performed. The analysis involved a total of 49
participants who were assessed for severity, duration, psychological distress,
type of preoperative pain, type of surgery and opioid consumption and followed
for 18 months. A pain trajectory was used to represent the acute postoperative
pain in the first ten days following the operation. Identification of
predictors of acute pain trajectory and chronic pain was made by conducting the
univariate analysis.
Foot & Ankle International
Pain Trajectory After Ankle Surgeries for Osteoarthritis.
Leah Guichard et al.
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