Editorial Office, Surgery: Current Research, Belgium
Perspective
A Safe and Effective Method to Enhance Rehabilitation Following Total Knee Arthroplasty is Cryoneurolysis
Author(s): David James*
Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA) patients often endure considerable amounts of incapacitating pain during the immediate postoperative period, necessitating the administration of narcotics, despite the fact that long-term pain and mobility outcomes are favorable. Infrapatellar saphenous and anterior femoral cutaneous nerves may benefit from percutaneous cryoneurolysis to improve function and rehabilitation following surgery while reducing narcotic intake. To determine the total opioid Morphine Milligramme Equivalents (MME) consumed impatiently and at interval follow-up, a retrospective chart analysis of main TKA patients from 2019 to 2020 who had pre-operative cryoneurolysis was conducted. To evaluate baseline features, demographic and medical comorbidities were compared between cryoneurolysis and age-matched control individuals. STATA 17 Software was used to evaluate patientreported out.. View More»
DOI:
10.35248|2161-1076.22.12(6).392
