Pain after knee arthroplasty: An unresolved issue

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1744-1758

  Grosu, Irina ^a   Lavand'homme, Patricia ^a   Thienpont, Emmanuel ^a  

^a CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Fast track; Multimodal; Pain; Rehabilitation; Total knee arthroplasty

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANALGESIA; CHRONIC PAIN; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOINT DISEASES; KNEE; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; MALE; PAIN; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PROCEDURES; SURGERY; VERY ELDERLY;

ACUTE PAIN; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALGESIA; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; CHRONIC PAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOINT DISEASES; KNEE; KNEE JOINT; MALE; PAIN MANAGEMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE;

EID: 84904547208     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-013-2750-2     Document Type: Review

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