Smoking Tobacco Discussion
Current Tobacco Use: Use of tobacco is recognized as a harmful influence in
the management of upper extremity problems. It appears to lower the pain
threshold. Smoking increases the chance of developing wound healing
problems, sympathetic dystrophy, painful nerve irritation, myofascial pain
syndrome and improper fracture healing. It is associated with delayed or
incomplete recovery and a higher complication rate following treatment of
upper extremity problems.
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