Pain management in a pediatric rehabilitation setting.
This article reviews the current understanding of pain evaluation as applied to children who have chronic illness and disabilities. Utilizing a collaborative medical approach, psychiatric principles of management are discussed. Case scenarios are presented to outline application of general strategies of clinical management.
Sisung
Charles E
CE
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Pediatric Rehabilitation Program, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. csisung@rehabchicago.org
Mukherjee
Shubhra
S
D000208:Acute Disease / Q000534:rehabilitation; D002648:Child; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000534:rehabilitation; D019988:Children with Disabilities / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D059408:Pain Management; D010147:Pain Measurement; D010348:Patient Care Team; D012047:Rehabilitation Centers; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000534:rehabilitation