PMID- 35286469 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20230426 LR - 20230426 IS - 1432-1068 (Electronic) IS - 1633-8065 (Linking) VI - 33 IP - 4 DP - 2023 May TI - Early reduction in postoperative pain is associated with improved long-term function after shoulder arthroplasty: a retrospective case series. PG - 1023-1030 LID - 10.1007/s00590-022-03242-x [doi] AB - PURPOSE: Mixed modalities are frequently utilized in total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA) to control pain, improve patient satisfaction, reduce narcotics use and facilitate earlier discharge. We investigate the relationship between early postoperative pain control and long-term functional outcomes after shoulder arthroplasty. METHODS: A retrospective review identified 294 patients (314 shoulders) who underwent anatomic or reverse TSA and received a continuous cervical paravertebral nerve block perioperatively. Opioid and non-opioid analgesics were also available to the patients in an "as needed" capacity to augment perioperative pain control. In addition to demographic and surgical characteristics, the impact on functional outcomes of relative pain (i.e., a patient's subjective pain relative to the entire cohort), pain gradient (i.e., the slope of a patient's subjective pain), and opioid consumption during the first 24 h postoperatively were assessed. Shoulder function was assessed using validated outcome measures collected at 2 year follow-up. Outcomes were measured using American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons questionnaire (ASES), Shoulder Pain and Disability Index (SPADI), SPADI-130, Raw and Normalized Constant Score, SST-12 and UCLA score. RESULTS: Patients younger than 65, females, reverse TSA, revisions, and preoperative opioid users had worse functional outcomes. On univariate analysis, increased pain perioperatively (> 50% percentile relative pain) was associated with decreased function at 2 years when analyzed with all seven outcome scores (P < .001 for all), reaching minimal clinically important difference (MCID) using the Constant Score. On multivariate analysis, increased pain in the first 24 h postoperatively (assessed on a continuous scale) was independently associated with worse ASES, SPADI, and SPADI-130 scores. Intraoperative ketamine administration and opioid consumption in the 24 h postoperative period did not influence long-term shoulder function. CONCLUSION: Patients reporting reduced pain after TSA demonstrated improved shoulder function with the Constant score at 2 years postoperatively in both univariate and multivariate analysis. Larger-scale investigation may be warranted to see if this is true for other functional outcome measures. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: III, treatment study. CI - (c) 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag France SAS, part of Springer Nature. FAU - Judkins, Benjamin L AU - Judkins BL AD - Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Prisma Health - Upstate, Greenville, SC, USA. FAU - Hao, Kevin A AU - Hao KA AD - College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. FAU - Wright, Thomas W AU - Wright TW AD - Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine, Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine Institute, University of Florida, 3450 Hull Road, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA. FAU - Jones, Braden K AU - Jones BK AD - Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine, Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine Institute, University of Florida, 3450 Hull Road, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA. FAU - Boezaart, Andre P AU - Boezaart AP AD - Department of Anesthesiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. AD - Lumina Health Pain Medicine Collaborative, Surrey, UK. FAU - Tighe, Patrick AU - Tighe P AD - Department of Anesthesiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. FAU - Vasilopoulos, Terrie AU - Vasilopoulos T AD - Department of Anesthesiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. FAU - Horodyski, MaryBeth AU - Horodyski M AD - Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine, Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine Institute, University of Florida, 3450 Hull Road, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA. FAU - King, Joseph J AU - King JJ AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-9201-9408 AD - Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine, Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine Institute, University of Florida, 3450 Hull Road, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA. kingjj@ortho.ufl.edu. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20220314 PL - France TA - Eur J Orthop Surg Traumatol JT - European journal of orthopaedic surgery & traumatology : orthopedie traumatologie JID - 9518037 SB - IM MH - Female MH - Humans MH - *Arthroplasty, Replacement, Shoulder MH - Retrospective Studies MH - *Shoulder Joint/surgery MH - Patient Satisfaction MH - Pain, Postoperative MH - Shoulder Pain/surgery MH - Treatment Outcome OTO - NOTNLM OT - Anatomic OT - Nerve catheter OT - Opioid OT - Outcome score OT - Reverse OT - Shoulder replacement EDAT- 2022/03/15 06:00 MHDA- 2023/04/26 06:41 CRDT- 2022/03/14 17:19 PHST- 2021/11/19 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/02/28 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2023/04/26 06:41 [medline] PHST- 2022/03/15 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/03/14 17:19 [entrez] AID - 10.1007/s00590-022-03242-x [pii] AID - 10.1007/s00590-022-03242-x [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Eur J Orthop Surg Traumatol. 2023 May;33(4):1023-1030. doi: 10.1007/s00590-022-03242-x. Epub 2022 Mar 14.