Background: Persistent pain after breast cancer surgery affects up to 60% of patients. Early
identification of those at higher risk could help inform optimal management. We conducted a …

Analysis of the problem of surgical pain is important in view of the fact that the success of
surgical treatment depends largely on proper pain management during the first few days …

Background Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) is used increasingly as an
alternative to thoracotomy for lobectomy in the treatment of early-stage non-small-cell lung …

Note fr'5ym PTJ's Editor in Chief: Both investigators and readers get frustrated reading
research on low back pain because of different definitions of “chronic” and different outcome …

Objectives Therapeutic virtual reality (VR) has emerged as an effective, drug-free tool for
pain management, but there is a lack of randomized, controlled data evaluating its …

To date, the association of risk factors with postoperative pain intensity among different
surgical procedures has been studied and compared. Researchers selected precisely …

Drawing on advances in chronic pain metrics, a simplified Graded Chronic Pain Scale-
Revised was developed to differentiate mild, bothersome, and high-impact chronic pain …

Pain measures and cutâ•’offs â•fi â•Ÿno worse than mild painâ•Ž as a simple, universal
outcome Page 1 Review Article Pain measures and cut-offs – no worse than mild pain as a …

Objective To examine the development of persistent pain after treatment for breast cancer
and to examine risk factors associated with continuing pain. Design Repeated cross …

Background The optimal dosage and method of esketamine for postpartum depressive
symptoms (PDS) are unclear. We conducted a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to …