After finding brief happiness as a postoperative man wed to a Vietnamese-American woman, Chi commits suicide.

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Patients were randomly assigned to groups who received either surgery and postoperative physical therapy or standardized physical therapy.

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This follows limited but successful testing in Brazil, where patients who underwent surgery with TranS1 catheters had no postoperative back pain and now lead active lives.

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Using data from a study that followed more than 1, 700 patients in North America, Europe and Australia long-term after hernia repair, Dr. Heniford identified both preoperative and surgical factors associated with chronic postoperative pain.

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The METEOR study, (Meniscal Tear in Osteoarthritis Research) demonstrated no significant difference in functional improvement after 6 months between patients who underwent surgery with postoperative physical therapy compared with those who received standard physical therapy alone.

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They settled on a postoperative regimen, too.

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