COVID-19 has forever changed the pain management landscape. In increasing numbers, pain clinics are seeing patients with new pain complaints after COVID exposure, and experts recommend that pain clinicians be retooled with a new understanding of what treating pain in the time of COVID-19 means. Importantly, post-COVID, or long COVID pain complaints are particularly prevalent in patients who were hospitalized in the ICU.
“Chronic pain, fatigue and mental health impacts of post-COVID-19