A Prospective Assessment of Opioid Utilization Post-operatively in Sports Orthopaedic Surgeries

1, Consent patients undergoing sports orthopaedic surgery in clinic or in pre-operative holding area and also administer first questionnaire, opioid risk tool, and pain catastrophizing scale(research) 2. Sports orthopaedic surgery (standard of care) 3. Post-op pain control regimen (standard of care) 4. Call or email patient with questionnaire every day for a week followed by weekly for 7 more weeks. The children's questionnaire will be child specific and the parent will assist the child. Will also use a picture of Wong-Baker Faces to help children identify where their pain scale is which will be given to the patient the same day that the consent is obtained to use at home(research). Questionnaire should take less than 5 minutes and will include questions about how well their pain is controlled, how many analgesic medications they have taken, and if they have tried anything else for pain. (Research) 5. Patient will continue to go to post-operative appointments as scheduled. (standard of care) 6. Will store the data from the phone calls on the secured T drive. (Research)

Inclusion criteria

• analgesics prescribed to patient

Patients that have undergone orthopaedic sports surgeries that Dr. Kaar and Dr. Kim performed with some of the examples being:

Acromioplasty Rotator cuff repair Labral repair Proximal humerus repair versus arthroplasty Elbow instability repair Elbow arthroplasty Hip arthroscopy Hip cam lesion repair Knee arthroscopy Knee ligament repair Knee meniscus repair Achilles tendon repair Cartilage preserving procedures

Exclusion criteria

mental retardation inmates non-english speaking pregnant on-call trauma cases