The elucidation of risk factors for acute and chronic postsurgical pain

For the perioperative management, acute and chronic postsurgical pain (CPSP) are urgent medical matters to be considered. The International Association for Study of Pain (IASP) has named 2017 as Global Year Against After Surgery where they focused on after surgery. As one various aspects pain, had published fact sheet “Chronic Postsurgical (CPSP): Definition, Impact, Prevention”. In sheet, concluded that “prediction CPSP might in theory allow preemptive targeting individual patients at risk”. catastrophizing scale (PCS) could predictive factors CPSP. other factors, endo­genous modulation, such conditioned modulation (CPM) temporal summation (TSP) been reported. addition, offset analgesia (OA) considered represent endogenous recently. However, it remains unclear whether these preoperative evaluations lead prediction pain. We have developed portable measurement device evaluation CPM, TSP OA. With device, OA were tested healthy volun­teers scheduled orthognathic PCS scores recorded preoperatively. data showed would risk