Preoperative Pain Control in Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff Repair: Does It Matter?

Conclusions: Patients in whom preoperative RP could be resolved before surgery achieved postoperative outcomes comparable to those in patients who had no RP before surgery, whereas the outcomes in patients with refractory preoperative RP were inferior. The results suggest that preoperative pain control is important in patients undergoing ARCR. PMID: 31156772 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Clinics in Orthopedic Surgery - Category: Orthopaedics Tags: Clin Orthop Surg Source Type: research