Total knee arthroplasty is one of the most commonly performed operations in the USA. As
with any elective joint surgery, the primary goal includes functional restoration that is not …

Abstract Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA) is an increasingly common procedure performed for
advanced osteoarthritis. Optimal perioperative pain management strategies are critical for …

Study objective There is no established analgesic method for postoperative total knee
arthroplasty. We comprehensively compared the analgesic methods for postoperative total …

Peripheral nerve block for total knee arthroplasty is ideally motor sparing while providing
effective postoperative analgesia. To achieve these goals, one must understand surgical …

Multimodal pain management techniques using femoral and sciatic nerve blocks can
dramatically improve a patient's experience after total knee arthroplasty. Nerve blocks …

Purpose of review: Conventional methods of postoperative pain control for total knee
arthroplasty include continuous epidural infusions of local anesthetic and patient-controlled …

Over the last decades, the number of total knee arthroplasty procedures performed in the
United States has been increasing dramatically. This very successful intervention, however …

Femoral nerve blocks are still the gold standard for an effective analgesia approach in knee
arthroplasty and should be supplemented (if needed) by oral opioids. An additional sciatic …

Patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty often experience substantial postoperative pain,
which may delay functional recovery and hospital discharge. We recently reported the short …

There remains a lack of randomized controlled trials comparing methods of perioperative
analgesia for total knee arthroplasty. To address this deficiency, a blinded, randomized …