Acute pain after total hip arthroplasty does not predict the development of chronic postsurgical pain 6 months later

PurposeMuch remains unknown about the relationship between acute postoperative pain and the development of pathologic chronic postsurgical pain (CPSP). The purpose of this project was to identify the extent to which maximum pain scores on movement over the first two days after total hip arthroplasty predicted the presence of chronic pain 6 months later after controlling for potentially important covariates.MethodsThe sample comprised 82 of 114 …