Here are the details to know:
1. Noblesville, Ind.-based Riverview Health cut opioid prescriptions by 70 percent because of the procedures pain reducing benefits.
2. As a result, patients recover from surgery faster.
3. Cryoanalgesia works by boiling compressed liquid nitrous oxide gas at minus 88 degrees Celsius within needles that are then injected into the patient’s knee a week before surgery.
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