Post Surgical Pain- The Transition from Acute to Chronic Pain
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The transition from acute to chronic post surgical pain.
All chronic pain was once acute, but not all acute pain becomes chronic. The transition of acute postoperative pain to chronic post surgical pain is a complex and poorly understood developmental process. The manuscript describes the various factors associated with the transition from acute to chronic pain. The preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative surgical, psychosocial, socio-environm...
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عنوان ژورنال: Reviews in Pain
سال: 2009
ISSN: 2042-1249
DOI: 10.1177/204946370900300203