03/11/2026
1 in 4 Women Have Post Surgical Pain following C-Section
This study highlights a few very important points that we share in our classes.
1️⃣ Surgical wounds(all wounds really) need to be addressed/treated immediately after they happen to minimize any long term effects on the body.
2️⃣ NSAID’s and stopping inflammation after surgery is detrimental on healing and contributes to long term and chronic pain.
3️⃣ It is imperative to have good post surgical pain management to mitigate the development of long term pain.
“There appears to be a consensus that acute post-surgical pain is a relevant contributing factor to the development of CPSP in women submitted to Cesarean section.”
💣 In conclusion, the findings of the present study provide important data on CPSP in women submitted to Cesarean section. One in four women report pain related to surgery three months after the operation, with this complaint being affected by anxiety levels, smoking and by the presence of severe pain in the early postoperative period. The risk factors identified here are modifiable, indicating that implementing preventive strategies could be beneficial. These strategies include providing emotional care and discouraging smoking in the period preceding a Cesarean section and offering better pain control following discharge from hospital for women who have undergone this surgical intervention.
Of the 620 women monitored after surgery, all received some type of medication for pain relief while in hospital. As shown in S1 Table, almost all (99.7%) were given simple analgesics and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) (93.3%) during this period. Of the simple analgesics, dipyrone was the most commonly administered medication (99.2%), while, of the NSAIDs, diclofenac sodium was the most common (99.5%). Only five women (0.8%) were given an opioid analgesic during this period.