This Journal Watch summarizes the study – “The Combination of Preoperative Pain, Conditioned Pain Modulation, and Pain Catastrophizing Predicts Postoperative Pain 12 Months After Total Knee Arthroplasty,” published in Pain Medicine, 2021 Do you think preoperative clinical pain intensity and pain catastrophizing thoughts can be predictors of chronic postoperative pain following a total knee arthroplasty? Source: Dennis Boye Larsen, PhD, Mogens Laursen, MD, Robert R Edwards, PhD, Ole Simonsen, MD, Lars Arendt-Nielsen, PhD, Kristian Kjær Petersen, PhD, The Combination of Preoperative Pain, Conditioned Pain Modulation, and Pain Catastrophizing Predicts Postoperative Pain 12 Months After Total Knee Arthroplasty, Pain Medicine, Volume 22, Issue 7, July 2021, Pages 1583–1590, https://doi.org/10.1093/pm/pnaa402