San Diego—Preoperative cognitive therapy via video teleconferencing significantly reduces pain catastrophizing in high-risk total knee arthroplasty patients, a study has found, which may pave the way for decreased persistent postoperative pain in the future. The approach is both inexpensive and relatively easy to implement.
“This study is a spinoff of some of our older work, where we have seen that pain catastrophizing is highly predictive of persistent postoperative