Anxiety level may not be correlated with opioid use after arthroscopic rotator cuff repair

Research published in The Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine showed no significant effect of levels of preoperative anxiety on opioid usage in patients who were opioid naive undergoing primary arthroscopic rotator cuff repair.“Surgery is a stressful event. It does not equal a psychiatric diagnosis and cannot predict who will and will not struggle postoperatively,” Hafiz F. Kassam,