Description

In society and healthcare, people understand that kids with cancer do suffer pain, but people did not understand that children without an obvious somatic condition could suffer pain that really need treatment; 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 in conversation with Dr. Wager to hear about the necessity and impact of intensive interdisciplinary pain rehabilitation program for pediatric chronic pain.

This is a 2 part episodeIn this episode we discuss the nuts and bolts of a pediatric pain rehabilitation program, who it is appropriate for, the approaches, team make up, fiscal considerations, unique offerings of the program and why they are important, while part two (episode 77) will cover the short and long term outcomes with longitudinal data from intensive pain rehabilitation program for pediatric pain management.

As Dr. Wager says - It's often the small things that make a big impact for a given child and the family.

Discover what these small things are!

Takeaways in This Episode

• How Dr. Julia Wager became interested in pediatric pain and intensive interdisciplinary pain treatment of children's pain
• The indications for an intensive pain rehabilitation program for pediatric pain
• Types of patients who are appropriate or not a good fit for this model of care
• The team make up
• Structure of the program
• Patient and family evaluation and treatment approaches for each
• Approaches for patient and family engagement in the treatment program
• Reimbursement and approval for intensive pain rehabilitation treatment for pediatric pain and ways to support justification when needed.

Links

Julia Wager, PhD

German Paediatric Pain Centre

Related articles by Dr Wager:

Long term outcomes of children with severe chronic pain

List of Pediatric Pain Clinics

Proactive Pain Solutions

Clinicians Pain Evaluation Toolkit