No Gender Differences in Pain Perception and Medication after Lumbar Spine Sequestrectomy-A Reanalysis of a Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Gender issues have received increasing attention in clinical research of the past years, and biological sex has been introduced as a moderating variable in experimental pain perception. However, in clinical studies of acute pain and gender, there are conflicting results. In particular, there are limited data on the impact of gender differences after spinal sequestrectomy. The aim of this work is to examine gender differences in postoperative pain and pain medication consumption in an inpatient clinical setting.

Methods

Data of a completed double-blind RCT was subdivided by gender and reanalyzed by means of an analysis of variance in repeated measures. Outcomes included pain severity measured on a VAS, affective (SES-A) and sensory pain perception (SES-S) and morph

SUBMITTER: Raak CK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9105259 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature