Pain medication and nerve injuries in upper or lower limb-a Swedish national registry study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Severe symptoms and disability may remain after upper and lower limb nerve injuries with an additional risk of persistent pain and consumption of pain medication.

Objectives

To examine whether upper and lower limb nerve injuries, potentially causes of pain, are associated with risk of using pain medication.

Methods

Drug use at an individual level was analysed in a large Swedish record-linkage database covering 6,579,612 individuals (age ≥18 years; first-ever nonsurgically [n = 5,249] and surgically treated [n = 3,669] upper limb and nonsurgically [n = 1,260] and surgically treated [n = 14] lower limb nerve injuries; International Classification of Diseases, 10th version and NOMESCO codes; 90-day washout period after surgery). Associations were expressed a

SUBMITTER: Dahlin LB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12815522 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature