Chronic pain in children can be a really serious condition and many of them may have a long journey to get where they need to be!

Says Julia Wager, PhD, an accomplished pediatric pain psychologist and head of research department, at the German Paediatric Pain Center, Children's and Adolescents' Hospital Datteln, Germany.

Join me for part 2 of my conversation with Dr. Wager to learn about the short and long term outcomes of intensive interdisciplinary pain rehabilitation program for pediatric chronic pain.

She discussed their short term and longitudinal data (8 years) from intensive pain rehabilitation program for pediatric chronic pain management.

As Dr. Wager says - We want them to be a child again and not a chronic pain patient for life!

Discover what these surprising findings are and what impact they have on short and long term management of these children!

Takeaways in This Episode

• The immediate, short and long term outcomes from the intensive interdisciplinary pain treatment of children's chronic pain
• Outcomes for the parents, caregivers and family
• Mental health and emotional outcomes and implication of these outcomes
• What findings surprised them amongst these children with chronic pain.
• The implications of the these outcomes on management of these children's pain
• Unique vulnerabilities of children with chronic pain
• 3 top instructions and type of awareness that is important for patients (children and their families) to know and be vigilant about.
• What the after-care upon completion of the intensive pain rehabilitation program should include
• Barriers to intensive pain rehabilitation program
• Predictors of success for these patients
• Financial outcomes and implications of intensive pain rehabilitation program
• Dr. Wager's message to healthcare professionals

Links

Julia Wager, PhD

German Paediatric Pain Centre

Related articles by Dr Wager:

Long term outcomes of children with severe chronic pain

Impact of Pediatric Pain Rehabilitation Program Part 1. Epi #76

List of Pediatric Pain Clinics

Proactive Pain Solutions

Clinicians Pain Evaluation Toolkit