Society for Pediatric Pain Medicine
Better Care for Children in Pain

As part of Pain Awareness Month, we would like to highlight our current newsletter featuring a section on Virtual Reality in Pain Management. Advances in technology are showing promise in helping decrease pain in children and youth, check out four fantastic articles reviewing several strategies for implementing technology as a tool in managing pain.

CLICK HERE to read the articles.

September is Pain Awareness Month! Our Society strives for “Better Care for Children in Pain” and we are proud to raise awareness of pain in children and youth. Our president, Dr. Robert Wilder, shares a message for our membership as we kick off our campaign and spread the word that poorly treated pain in the pediatric population is unacceptable and requires our ongoing research, clinical advancements and advocacy.

Join us on social media by using hashtags:  #PedsPain & #PainAwarenessMonth. 

 

 

The Project ECHO Team at Dartmouth-Hitchcock invites you to join – Kids in Pain: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Pediatric Pain Management

Starting April 20, 2021 and continuing every other Tuesday from 12:00-1:00 pm ET.

Chronic pain has a profound impact on children’s function, mood, and quality of life. This course will engage participants in how to deliver practical, effective, multidimensional care for various types of pain conditions. It will examine the complex, biopsychosocial contributors to the experience of chronic pain and explore the integration of different treatments: pharmacologic, interventionalist, psycho-behavioral, physical and movement therapies, and complementary approaches. Mental health interfaces will be addressed throughout. 

Invited Participants: Anyone who treats children and adolescents living with chronic pain or health conditions, including Pediatricians and care teams, Family Medicine, Pediatric Nurses, Pediatric Anesthesiology, GI, Rheumatology, Neurology, Psychiatry, Social Workers, Child Life Specialists, Pediatric PTs and OTs, and any others with interest. 

REGISTER HERE (Free of Charge)

 

 

New article published in Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians focuses on the effects of the opioid crisis on children and adolescents and is intended to inform institutional policies, improve education, advocate for evidence-informed guidelines, and improve the care of children affected by the opioid epidemic who are seen in the emergency department.

CLICK HERE to read the article.  

 

In early 2021, the Pediatric Pain Warrior program at U.S. Pain Foundation surveyed 125 families with one or more children living in pain. The results paint a portrait of families and children affected by chronic pain whose needs are not being met.

Read the full report HERE.