“…More specifically, although patients with higher levels of preoperative pain and disability demonstrate the greatest improvements in PROM scores, they do not achieve absolute postoperative scores comparable to patients with less preoperative pain and better baseline function [13,24]. A substantial body of evidence has also demonstrated that mental and emotional health influence postoperative PROMs after TKA [4,5,13,16,17,19,24,26,27,40,43,44]. Worse preoperative mental and emotional health is associated with smaller improvements in physical function scores after TKA [4,5,16,17,22,27,40].…”