Society for Pediatric Pain Medicine
Better Care for Children in Pain

September was proclaimed as National Sickle Cell Awareness Month by President Joseph Biden in 2021. Complementary Therapies in Medicine has published a special issue to commemorate National Sickle Cell Awareness Month with several articles that would be of interest for pain practitioners.

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This article provides a review of current research regarding the use of acupuncture as a pain treatment strategy for pediatric patients with SCD experiencing acute pain. A literature review of scientific papers published within the last ten years was conducted on the topic. Acupuncture is feasible and acceptable, with statistically significant findings for effectiveness as an adjunct treatment for pain in this setting.

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Since 2009, the Rita Allen Foundation has awarded annually the Rita Allen Foundation Award in Pain, recognizing emerging experts in basic pain research whose work holds high potential for uncovering new pathways to improve the treatment of chronic pain. Each year, the Foundation typically awards two grants, in the amount of $50,000 per year over three years, to early-career investigators who are pursuing innovative research on mechanisms that initiate and propagate pain in the nervous system.

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The team at the German Paediatric Pain Centre have recently published a pre-registered systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis on intensive interdisciplinary pain treatment for children and adolescents in PAIN, https://journals.lww.com/pain/Abstract/9900/Intensive_interdisciplinary_pain_treatment_for.14.aspx.  The group has also created a website,  https://www.peds-iipt.com, to publish the results of the qualitative analysis of their paper.