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One Year After Surgery 1 in 7 Patients Report More Physical Problems
Researchers from The Netherlands spoke to 216 women and 185 men with an average age of 54, who had undergone planned surgery, ranging from plastic surgery to orthopaedic surgery.
They used the SF-36 health survey to measure pain, physical functioning, mental health and vitality before surgery and six and 12 months after each patient's operation.
The researchers also asked patients how far they had moved towards a 100 percent recovery, six and 12 months after surgery.
"Our study showed poor recovery was relatively frequent six and 12 months after surgery and could be partly explained by various physical and psychological factors," Dr Madelon Peters from the Department of Clinical Psychological Science at Maastricht University, said.
"These included acute postoperative pain and presurgical anxiety," he stated.
The key findings of the study showed more than half of the patients (53 percent) said that their pain levels had improved 12 months after their operation and 29 percent said they were stable.
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