The Impact of Preoperative Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction on Postoperative Patient-Reported Pain, Disability, Quality of Life, and Prescription Opioid Use in Lumbar Spine Degenerative Disease: A Pilot Study.
World neurosurgery January 2019 Juneyoung L Yi, Christina A. Porucznik, Lisa H Gren et al.
Prescription opioid medications negatively affect postoperative outcomes after lumbar spine surgery. Furthermore, opioid-related overdose death rates in the United States increased by 200% between 2000 and 2014. Thus, alternatives are imperative. Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), a mind-body therapy, has been associated with improved activity and mood in opioid-using patients with...
DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2018.09.223 (opens in new tab)
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Degenerative disease
Lumbar spine surgery
Mindfulness-based stress reduction
Patient-reported outcomes
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