Chelsea M Kaplan, Andrew Schrepf, Kevin F Boehnke, Ying He, Tristin Smith, David A Williams, Rachel Bergmans, Terri Voepel-Lewis, Afton L Hassett, Richard E Harris, Daniel J Clauw, Adriene M Beltz, Steven E Harte
OBJECTIVE: Chronic pain has economic costs on par with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer. Despite this impact on the health care system and an increasing awareness of the relationship between pain and mortality, efforts to identify simple symptom-based risk factors for the development of pain, particularly in children, have fallen short. This is critically important as pain that manifests during childhood often persists into adulthood. To date no longitudinal studies have examined symptoms in pain-free children that presage a new, multisite manifestation of pain in the future...
July 6, 2023: Clinical Journal of Pain