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Postoperative pain after knee replacement

The level of pain experienced by patients after undergoing knee replacement surgery

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Jan 16, 2026
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Randomized evidence on genicular artery embolization (GAE) for knee osteoarthritis shows short-term pain reductions in some trials versus sham procedures, especially on visual analogue scale (VAS) mea...

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What are the main risk factors that predict chronic pain after total knee replacement?

About one in five patients develops chronic pain after total knee arthroplasty (TKA), and a growing body of systematic reviews and large cohort studies shows that the risk is multifactorial: psycholog...