New Insights Into Prevention and Management of Chronic Pain in Children and Adolescents | NCCIH

Chronic pain affects up to 40 percent of children and adolescents worldwide. It can result in negative consequences, including reductions in children’s physical and psychosocial functioning and high health care use. The risk for continued pain and the impact of childhood chronic pain on health and development in adulthood are…

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Brain signatures for chronic pain identified in a small group of individuals | National Institutes of Health (NIH)

For the first time, researchers have recorded pain-related data from inside the brain of individuals with chronic pain disorders caused by stroke or amputation (phantom limb pain). A long sought-after goal has been to understand how pain is represented by brain activity and how to modulate that activity to relieve…

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Link: About the NIH-DOD-VA Pain Management Collaboratory – Pain Management Collaboratory

The Pain Management Collaboratory is comprised of 11 large-scale, multisite, pragmatic clinical trials that focus on implementation and evaluation of nonpharmacological approaches for the management of pain and common co-occurring conditions in Military and Veterans healthcare systems. The Pain Management Collaboratory Coordinating Center (PMC3) facilitates and supports the individual trials…

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