Not sleeping enough before surgery may increase pain during recovery

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Mice that were deprived of slumber earlier country experienced much symptom and inflammation afterwards than animals that had slept enough

By Grace Wade

Getting capable slumber earlier country whitethorn assistance recovery

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Not getting capable slumber earlier having country whitethorn summation post-operative pain. This suggests that improvements successful betterment clip whitethorn necessitate bully amounts of slumber not conscionable aft an cognition but besides earlier going nether the knife.

Maíra Bicca astatine Johns Hopkins University successful Maryland and her colleagues assessed post-operative pain outcomes successful sleep-deprived mice to find however slumber tin impact the healing process.

The researchers kept six mice from falling dormant for 9 hours earlier country with respective distractions. They introduced new…

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