Persistent Pain after Cesarean Delivery

Tissue trauma and nerve injury from surgery are common causes of debilitating chronic pain.1 Persistent pain after surgery affects 10 to 50% of people after various common surgical procedures, such as groin hernia repair, breast and thoracic surgery, leg amputation, and coronary artery bypass surgery.1 It was initially thought that persistent pain after cesarean delivery (CD) was an understudied and under-reported phenomenon, with one of the first prospective studies showing that the prevalence of persistent pain was similarly low for both CD and vaginal delivery (VD).
Source: International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia - Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Tags: Original Article Source Type: research