By Dr Nofil Mulla
17.10.24
Pain management specialist
How to prepare for postoperative pain before your surgery
An aspect of surgery that patients can feel the most anxious about is not the procedure itself but what comes after. A surgery may only take three hours but require three months to recover from, and in that time, the patient must likely deal with some postoperative pain. Of course, to be expected when the body has been cut open and put back together again, even by the most skilled hands. In this guide, a consultant pain physician and intervention specialist shares tips and advice for preparing and managing postoperative pain, before the surgery.