Abstracts Posters SICOT-SOF meeting Gothenburg 2010 _2_

Poster
Topic: Arthroplasty - Knee
Abstract number: 25614
POST-SURGICAL PAIN AFTER KNEE ARTHROPLASTY IN RELATION TO
PREOPERATIVE PAIN
Peteris STUDERS 1 , Iveta GOLUBOVSKA 2 , Indulis VANAGS 3
1 Research labaratory of Traumatology and Orthopaedics, Riga (LATVIA), 2 Hospital of
Traumatology and Orthopaedics, Riga (LATVIA), 3 Department of Anaesthesiology,
Riga Stradins University, Riga (LATVIA)
The relief of pain and the restoration of functional activities are the main outcomes of
primary total knee arthroplasty (TKA) for the treatment of osteoarthritis. Most
arthroplasty outcome measures do not take postoperative pain into account. To
document if the prospective pain experience following TKA correlates with subjective
pain-specific questionnaires for preoperative and postoperative pain and is predictive
for long-term pain outcomes.30 patients with a primary diagnosis of osteoarthritis of
the knee, who were scheduled to undergo TKA, were asked to fill out the McGill Pain
Questionnaire (MPQ) preoperatively and at three, 6 and 12 months follow-up. The
overall response rate (return of completed questionnaires) was 80%. There was a
significant decrease in the MPQ scores (P