Nov 13, 2022 · You are not alone. I have read articles that say up to 50% of patients have chest wall or skin pain after open heart surgery. I have a silver dollar sized spot on my left chest that was super …

Mar 13, 2025 · This nerve block lasts, they say, for several days following surgery and lessens the deep visceral pain expected after major GI surgery ( they removed about half my colon), though not the …

Purpose: The aim of this study was to identify the occurrence of shoulder pain after cardiac surgery among cardiac rehabilitation participants (CRPs) and its interaction with cardiac rehabilitation (CR). …

Another possible cause of meralgia paresthetica after heart operations is the "frog-leg" position of the legs during vein harvesting. Patients with this condition should be advised of its untreatable, but …

We present the case of a 65-year-old man undergoing open-heart surgery through a full sternotomy with the use of bilateral intercostal cryo nerve block (cryoNB) as adjunctive therapy for postoperative …

May 21, 2025 · I had nerve damage from spine surgery. I’m fused L/3 through S/1. There was a large osteophyte at L/4 that damaged the nerve. I am 2.5 years out and kept hoping for improvement but …

Mar 25, 2022 · Background Open-heart surgery is associated with severe postoperative pain. Adequate analgesia after open-heart surgery improves patients’ early postoperative recovery, extubation, …

Summary Background Open-heart surgery is associated with severe postoperative pain. Adequate analgesia after open-heart surgery improves patients’ early postoperative recovery, extubation, …