Study shows modified technique further reduces lung surgery pain

Friday, June 6, 2008 - 12:07 in Health & Medicine

A simple variation in a surgical technique developed at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) to reduce acute and chronic pain following lung surgery further reduces pain and helps return patients to normal activity quicker than the previous technique, according to a study published in the June issue of the Annals of Thoracic Surgery.

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