1. Traumatic Stress and Pediatric Pain: Towards a Neurobiological Stress-Health Perspective
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Samantha E. Huestis, Grace S. Kao, Rashmi P. Bhandari, and Brenda Golianu
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Conceptualization ,Perspective (graphical) ,Traumatic stress ,Chronic pain ,Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine ,Positive correlation ,medicine.disease ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Pediatric pain ,Stress (linguistics) ,Emergency Medicine ,medicine ,Exploratory Study ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Trauma symptoms ,Psychology ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Clinical psychology - Abstract
This theoretical review aims to present the limited findings on traumatic stress and pain in children and adolescents, highlight recent discoveries regarding neurobiological processes, and suggest an alternative stress-health perspective in the future study and conceptualization of pediatric pain and traumatic stress based on results. Current literature highlights a positive correlation between pain and trauma symptoms in youth and suggests a complex relationship that may have mutually maintaining dynamics and intertwined physiological processes. Developmentally sensitive, longitudinal, process-oriented designs assessing neurobiological alterations and stress responses should be utilized in the examination of the trauma-pain relationship. Such investigations may provide a more unified explanation of the relationship between chronic pain and traumatic stress.
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- 2017
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