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[Childrens' pain, a complex entity to be explored]

Dora Knauer

    Revue Medicale Suisse
    |July 25, 2014
    PubMed

    Insights

    Childhood chronic pain is complex, involving early emotional memory and sensory development. Understanding fetal sensory reception offers new insights into psychological pain origins from infancy through adolescence.

    Area of Science:

    • Pediatric Pain Management
    • Developmental Psychology
    • Neuroscience

    Context:

    • Childhood chronic pain is a complex and underexplored area.
    • Early emotional memory and fetal sensory capacities are key areas of recent discovery.
    • Psychological distress in children and adolescents often manifests as physical pain.

    Purpose:

    • To explore the origins of chronic pain in children and adolescents.
    • To understand the link between early sensory reception and psychological pain.
    • To highlight the connection between emotional regulation disorders and physical pain expression.

    Summary:

    • Investigates the multifaceted nature of chronic pain in pediatric populations, from infancy to adolescence.
    • Connects early fetal sensory reception discoveries to the origins of psychological chronic pain.
    • Identifies the expression of psychic disease through bodily symptoms in conditions like emotional regulation disorder and adolescent recurrent pains.

    Impact:

    • Underscores the risk of intellectual, affective, and drive impoverishment if chronic pain is untreated.
    • Emphasizes the need for diverse therapeutic interventions for pediatric chronic pain.
    • Opens new avenues for understanding and treating chronic pain by considering fetal development and early life experiences.

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