Pediatric pain is the pain experienced when a child is affected by a disorder or a disease. A child can suffer from the usual aches and pain from growing up and from their day to day activities. But the real pain comes from chronic diseases and disorders. One type of pediatric pain is juvenile arthritis; the pain can be just as severe as the pain an adult feels. Arthritis affects the joints and with a child the pain is greater because a child is always moving about, they are playing, running, jumping and skipping.
The use of hot and cold modalities, which the patient can safely use at
home, should be encouraged. The use of devices or treatments that
require the help of other persons or professional settings, such as
ultrasound or massage, are best reserved for acute pain syndromes or
intermittently painful chronic conditions.
There are different factors that contribute to having TMJ pain. Body alignment is one of the problems that cause TMJ pain. Ehlers-Danlos syndrome is a hereditary connective tissue disorder. TMJ is usually common in patients with Marfan syndrome, Ehlers-Danlos Dyndrome, and other connective tissue disorders.
The McGill Pain Questionnaire is the most widely used and popular in evaluating pain. It evaluates three major classes of word descriptions - sensory, affective, and evaluative - that patients use to specify their subjective pain experience.
It has a built-in intensity scale. Multiple reports in the literature have evaluated this method of pain measurement, and it has been used extensively in clinical evaluation and treatment trials.
Chronic Pain - Pain Management
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