Pedia Pain Focus

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 oft