Knee replacement surgery may go poorly for people who think life is unfair

[jazzhands]

Interesting study on postoperative success rates of knee surgery:

The more a patient agreed before surgery that life seems unfair and others are to blame for their problems, the more pain they reported experiencing one year after surgery. That was true even when age, sex, other health conditions and pre-surgery pain levels were accounted for, according to the results in the journal Pain.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/21/us-psycholog-pain-knee-replacement-idUSKBN0GL23L20140821

Anyone else think this study is basically looking at TMS, in a very roundabout way?

I'll share my own experience. Long before I diagnosed and cured my TMS, I had my jaw advanced by a centimeter. My face swelled to the size of a watermelon and the following two weeks were the most painful of my entire life. When I called my surgeon to get a better pain prescription, he mentioned pain of that level is very unusual. My pain went away when the swelling was mostly gone. TMS? Seems quite possible in retrospect.

 

[Walt Oleksy (RIP 2021)]

I think it's just not a good idea to ever think that life is unfair.
It's a matter of perspective and degree.
When I thought it was bad that I had a back ache, I thought of Mother Teresa of Calcutta
and saw pictures of her walking like she was 100 when she was half that age.

I try to be grateful for the blessings I have been given and don't weigh them against what
others have.