About September is Pain Awareness Month September is Pain Awareness Month, an annual campaign dedicated to increasing understanding of pain, pain management, and the experiences of people living with pain. […]

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Title: Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: A Tailored Approach to Perioperative Pain in Youth with Developmental Disabilities Authors:Chasity Brimeyer and Casey M. Calkins Pages: 1-4 Download PDF:Click here to view/download the full article (PDF) Read on screen Title: Integrative Health within Intensive Interdisciplinary Pain Treatment for Pediatric Patients with Chronic Pain Authors:Urszula Winkiewicz, Francesca J. Muraca, Staci Loer-Fisher, […]

Title: Parents’ management of postoperative pain Authors: G. Allen Finley Category: Articles Title: Fibromyalgia in children Authors: Patrick J. McGrath Category: Articles Title: Psychological factors in recurrent abdominal pain Authors: Carl von Baeyer Category: Articles Download PDF: Click here to view/download the full article (PDF)

About September is Pain Awareness Month September is Pain Awareness Month, an annual campaign dedicated to increasing understanding of pain, pain management, and the experiences of people living with ...

Commentary Integrative Health within Intensive Interdisciplinary Pain Treatment forPediatric Patients with Chronic Pain Urszula Winkiewicz, Francesca J. Muraca, Staci Loer-Fisher, Wanda R. Baker, Margaret McGrath and Kendra J. Homan Chronic pain is a significant health problem affecting more than 20 percent of the pediatric population worldwide (Chambers et al., 2024). An intensive interdisciplinary pain treatment […]

Commentary Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: A Tailored Approach to Perioperative Pain in Youth with Developmental Disabilities Chasity Brimeyer and Casey M. Calkins Undergoing surgery is uniquely challenging for youth with developmental disabilities, a variety of conditions that cause varying degrees of physical, intellectual, language, and/or behavioral needs (e.g., intellectual disability, Down syndrome, autism spectrum disorder; Balakas et […]

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Commentary Integrative Health within Intensive Interdisciplinary Pain Treatment forPediatric Patients with Chronic Pain Urszula Winkiewicz, Francesca J. Muraca, Staci Loer-Fisher, Wanda R. Baker, Margaret McGrath and Kendra J. Homan Chronic pain is a significant health problem affecting more than 20 percent of the pediatric population worldwide (Chambers et al., 2024). An intensive interdisciplinary pain treatment […]

Commentary Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: A Tailored Approach to Perioperative Pain in Youth with Developmental Disabilities Chasity Brimeyer and Casey M. Calkins Undergoing surgery is uniquely challenging for youth with developmental disabilities, a variety of conditions that cause varying degrees of physical, intellectual, language, and/or behavioral needs (e.g., intellectual disability, Down syndrome, autism spectrum disorder; Balakas et […]

Title: Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: A Tailored Approach to Perioperative Pain in Youth with Developmental Disabilities Authors:Chasity Brimeyer and Casey M. Calkins Pages: 1-4 Download PDF:Click here to view/download the full article (PDF) Read on screen Title: Integrative Health within Intensive Interdisciplinary Pain Treatment for Pediatric Patients with Chronic Pain Authors:Urszula Winkiewicz, Francesca J. Muraca, Staci Loer-Fisher, […]

Title: Parents’ management of postoperative pain Authors: G. Allen Finley Category: Articles Title: Fibromyalgia in children Authors: Patrick J. McGrath Category: Articles Title: Psychological factors in recurrent abdominal pain Authors: Carl von Baeyer Category: Articles Download PDF: Click here to view/download the full article (PDF)

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Commentary “It all seems so unfair”: Pain-related injustice appraisals in youth with chronic pain and their caregivers Megan M. Miller, Mary K. Lynch, Adam T. Hirsh, and Amy E. Williams Appraisals of injustice can arise from a variety of circumstances including violations of basic human rights, challenges to equity norms and just world beliefs (Mohiyeddini […]

Commentary Social media use in adolescent chronic pain Emily Brown and Jeremy Gauntlett-Gilbert Introduction The treatment of pediatric chronic pain involves some widely agreed clinical targets, such as increasing physical activity, ensuring access to normative social contact, improving mood and dealing with comorbid difficulties such as sleep problems. However, these clinical issues have been strongly […]

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This page contains the most recent issue of Pediatric Pain Letter and contains links to individual articles both on page and PDF downloads.

Commentary Defining adolescence: A call for consistency in the chronic pain literature Abigail Jones, Line Caes, Jeremy Gauntlett-Gilbert and Abbie Jordan Adolescence is the distinct developmental period of transition from childhood to adulthood, involving changes in physical, psychological and biological functioning (Tanti et al., 2011; Berenbaum et al., 2015; Tilton-Weaver & Marshall, 2017; Nahman-Averbuch et […]

Mica Gabrielle Marbil and Kathryn A. Birnie Many healthcare services were provided virtually during the COVID-19 pandemic (Killackey et al., 2021). Despite the ongoing demand for virtual pediatric chronic pain treatment, there is limited research guiding this practice (Birnie et al., 2021). The research that does exist often excludes equity-seeking groups (Birnie et al., 2022); […]

Megan Silvia and Shealyn O’Donnell Pediatric chronic pain is surprisingly common, with 44% of school-aged youth reporting at least weekly pain in the last six months (Gobina et al., 2019). Youth pain presentations are heterogeneous, and can include persistent headaches, abdominal pain, musculoskeletal pain, or neuropathic pain, in singular or multiple sites. These conditions have […]

Contains a list of all previous Pediatric Pain Letter issues, including links to read on page and also to download individual article PDFs.

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This page contains the most recent issue of Pediatric Pain Letter and contains links to individual articles both on page and PDF downloads.

Contains a list of all previous Pediatric Pain Letter issues, including links to read on page and also to download individual article PDFs.

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Title: Pathways to Immersive Healing: Exploring the Mechanisms of Virtual Reality for Pediatric Chronic Pain Management Authors:Camila Pizá and Deirdre Logan Pages: 1-7 Download PDF:Click here to view/download the full article (PDF) Read on screen Title: Book Review of: Tell Me Where It Hurts: The New Science of Pain and How to Heal by Dr. […]

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