Postoperative opioid use significantly decreased with the use of a standardized pain protocol among patients who underwent ...

Background: Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are recommended for multimodal postoperative pain management ... 3.17 ± 2.01, p = 0.02) after surgery. Active ROM also increased ...

You may have general anesthesia, which puts you to sleep through the surgery, or you may have regional anesthesia, when your doctor puts medicine in your back so you won’t feel anything in your ...

WashU Medicine researchers have been awarded nearly $5 million to better understand what causes pain symptoms to persist in some patients recovering from surgery.