White Paper

The ROI of Preoperative Pain Neuroscience Education

Orthopedic surgery is one of the most common medical procedures in the United States, but one in three patients following lumbar surgery still experience significant pain and disability, and one in five patients following total knee arthroplasty.^1-3

Adriaan Louw, PT, PhD, explains the many benefits of pre-operative pain neuroscience education pre-op programs in this featured white paper.

Download this white paper to learn how these programs can:

Improve the patient experience
Reduce healthcare costs for patients
Decrease resistance to future procedures

¹ Oertel MF, Ryang YM, Korinth MC, Gilsbach JM, Rohde V. Long-term results of microsurgical treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis by unilateral laminotomy for bilateral decompression. Neurosurgery. 2006;59(6):1264-1269; discussion 1269-1270.

² Deyo RA, Mirza SK. The case for restraint in spinal surgery: does quality management have a role to play? Eur Spine J. 2009;18 Suppl 3:331-337.

³ Hirschmann MT, Testa E, Amsler F, Friedrich NF. The unhappy total knee arthroplasty (TKA) patient: higher WOMAC and lower KSS in depressed patients prior and after TKA. Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA. 2013;21(10):2405-2411.

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About the White Paper

Meet the Author

Adriaan Louw, PT, PhD

Adriaan earned his undergraduate, master's degree and PhD in physiotherapy from the University of Stellenbosch in Cape Town, South Africa. He is an adjunct faculty member at St. Ambrose University and the University of Nevada Las Vegas, teaching pain science. Adriaan has taught throughout the US and internationally for 25 years at numerous national and international manual therapy, pain science and medical conferences. He has authored and co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed articles related to spinal disorders and pain science. Adriaan completed his Ph.D. on pain neuroscience education and is the Director of the Therapeutic Neuroscience Research Group - an independent … collaborative initiative studying pain neuroscience. Adriaan is a senior faculty, pain science director and vice-president of faculty experience for Evidence in Motion.

Who is this white paper for?

This white paper is an ideal resource for:

All practitioners in leadership roles
Managers, administrators, and other healthcare leaders

These best practices can be applied in the following settings:

Hospitals and Health Systems
Private Practices

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