Chronic musculoskeletal pain in children: Assessment and management

Rheumatology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 466-474

  Clinch, Jacqui ^a,b   Eccleston, Christopher ^b  

^a ROYAL NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR RHEUMATIC DISEASES   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Chronic pain; Complex regional pain syndrome; Demedicalization; Diffuse idiopathic pain; Juvenile fibromyalgia; Localized idiopathic pain; Multidisciplinary rehabilitation; Pain education; Pain associated disability

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BOTULINUM TOXIN; GABAPENTIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PREGABALIN; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ANAMNESIS; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; BACKACHE; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME TYPE I; DRUG EFFICACY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FAMILY ATTITUDE; FIBROMYALGIA; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; JOINT HYPERMOBILITY; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; KINESIOTHERAPY; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOSOCIAL REHABILITATION; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SCREENING TEST; SELF CARE; SPORT INJURY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ANALGESICS; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES;

EID: 65249146793     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: 14620332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/kep001     Document Type: Review

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