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Preoperative anxiety and tourniquet use are associated with early postoperative pain trajectories after total knee arthroplasty: a retrospective cohort study
2026-07-25
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background Early pain after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) often shapes the first week of mobilization and rehabilitation. Preoperative anxiety and tourniquet exposure are both clinically plausible contributors, but their associations with repeated early pain measurements have not been well described. Methods We studied 236 patients who underwent primary unilateral TKA for knee osteoar...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 08c78d34-be99-5101-b23e-f407f655e571
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- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-10346258/v1
