Are social isolation and pain experience after surgery related? Researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) set out to test this hypothesis. They found that people who lacked good social ties were much more likely to experience serious, ongoing pain following total hip replacement surgery two or more years after the procedure. The study, titled "Social Networks and Hip Replacement Outcomes in Rheumatoid Arthritis and Osteoarthritis," will be ...
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