Main description:

The purpose of this text is to provide not only the science and current knowledge of pediatric pain management but a rationale for intervention. The book is ground-breaking in that it provides pearls for the recognition and management of multiple childhood chronic pain syndromes. Also, uncommon yet confounding issues such as pain management for epidermolysis bullosa are adequately addressed. Concerns unique to pediatric patients are reviewed. While there are no firm standards in pediatric chronic pain, a care plan is offered to help guide practitioners when possible.

The book will consist of 24 chapters, many co-written by a physician and a psychologist. Chapter 1 covers the history of pediatric chronic pain, the advancement pediatric pain as a clinical subspecialty, development of pediatric pain clinics, and characterization of the common pain syndromes. Chapters 2-4 cover, respectively, the research on early pain exposure and neuroplasticity, theories on the common adolescent pain syndromes, and the demographics of chronic pain in children. Chapters 5-16 discuss approaches to assessment and intervention for specific pediatric and adolescent pain syndromes. Chapters 17-23 address interventional techniques such as therapeutic blocks, neurablation, implantable systems, physical therapy, complementary therapy, and pharmacology including opioid tolerance. The final chapter discusses the role of the nurse practitioner in pediatric chronic pain.

Contents:

1.The Epidemiology of Pediatric Chronic Pain

2. Research on Impact of Early Pain Exposure and Neuroplasticity

3. Theories on the Common Adolescent Pain Syndromes

4. Demographics of Chronic Pain in Children

5. Assessment Tools in Chronic Pain: Specificity and Validity

6. Psychological Assessment and Longitudinal Impact of Chronic Pain

7. Clinical Management of Musculoskeletal Pain Syndromes

8. Clinical Management of Functional Abdominal Pain

9. Chronic and Recurrent Pelvic Pain

10. Etiologies and Clinical Management of Headache

11. Sickle cell disease

12. Palliative Care: Throughout the Continuum

13. Cancer -related Pain in Childhood

14. Radiological Imaging in Pediatric Pain

15. Interventional Techniques in Pediatric Chronic Pain

16. Physical Therapy

17. Complementary Therapy in Children

18. Complementary Therapy in Children

19. Pharmacology of Pediatric Chronic Pain Management

20. Opioid Tolerance

21. Opioid tapers

22. The Role of the Nurse Practitioner in Pediatric Chronic Pain.