Back Pain in Children and Adolescents
A special issue of Children (ISSN 2227-9067). This special issue belongs to the section "Pediatric Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 10896
Special Issue Editors
2. Children’s Pain Therapy and Paediatric Palliative Care, Faculty of Health, School of Medicine, Witten/Herdecke University, 45711 Datteln, Germany
Interests: pain management; migraine; palliative medicine; pain medicine
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Dear Colleagues,
Back pain in children, adolescents and young adults is a rising problem in our societies. The older the child becomes, the more likely he or she will be to suffer back pain. Back pain during childhood is a risk factor for back pain during adulthood, highlighting the need to understand back pain in children better. There are many misconceptions about back pain in children and adolescents. As an example, it is commonly believed that heavy school bags cause chronic low back pain and that back pain is mainly a problem of the body and psychosocial factors can be neglected. The opposite is true: psychosocial factors play a major role as risk factors for developing ongoing chronic back pain. What to do? Research is needed to determine the best prevention and treatment strategies, the role of exercise and to understand implications for pediatric chronic low back pain into adulthood.
That is the reason why the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) calls the year 2021 the Global Year about Back Pain. Since the IASP’s efforts to study back pain will mainly focus on adults, we decided to dedicate a Special Issue of Children to back pain in childhood.
Original research from basic and clinical researchers as well as reviews on different aspects of back pain in childhood are highly welcome. We guarantee a fast and fair review process to produce a comprehensive Special Issue on back pain in children, adolescents and young adults.
Prof. Dr. Boris Zernikow
Prof. Dr. Michael Skovdal Rathleff
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- back pain
- acute pain
- chronic pain
- children
- adolescents
- sports and pain
- pain prevention
- interdisciplinary multimodal pain treatment
- risk factors for chronification
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