Musculoskeletal (MSK) pain is one of the most common types of pain among children and adolescents. Recurring episodes of MSK pain conditions have a major impact on the daily lives. Children and adolescents with neuromuscular diseases are often unable to report the pain the patients experience because of intellectual and/or physical limitations. There is no reason to believe that pain is any less frequent or intense in these patients than in normally developing patients. Because of the elusive nature of pain in non-verbal children, therapeutic decisions are frequently based on vague proxy measures of pain and revert to a series of trials and errors. This project creates a unique opportunity to directly characterize and compare MSK and surgical pain subjectively in two different patient samples (verbal and non-verbal). The ultimate goal is to use this information to offer the highest quality of pain control in children with MSK conditions, and more specifically in children with limited communication skills unable to communicate their distress associated with the surgical procedural.
Age range
10 Years – 18 Years
Sex
ALL
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Pain intensity as assessed by the The Faces Pain Scale -Revised (0-10 scale, with higher score indicating more pain) in verbal patients
Timeframe: Baseline
Pain intensity as assessed by the The Faces Pain Scale -Revised (0-10 scale, with higher score indicating more pain) in verbal patients
Timeframe: Postoperative day 1
Pain intensity as assessed by the The Faces Pain Scale -Revised (0-10 scale, with higher score indicating more pain) in verbal patients
Timeframe: Postoperative day 2
Pain intensity as assessed by the The Faces Pain Scale -Revised (0-10 scale, with higher score indicating more pain) in verbal patients
Timeframe: Postoperative day 5
Pain intensity as assessed by the The Faces Pain Scale -Revised (0-10 scale, with higher score indicating more pain) in verbal patients
Timeframe: 6 weeks postoperative
Pain intensity as assessed by the The Faces Pain Scale -Revised (0-10 scale, with higher score indicating more pain) in verbal patients
Timeframe: 6 months postoperative
Pain intensity as assessed by the The Faces Pain Scale -Revised (0-10 scale, with higher score indicating more pain) in verbal patients
Timeframe: 1 year postoperative
Pain intensity as assessed by the The Faces Pain Scale -Revised (0-10 scale, with higher score indicating more pain) in verbal patients
Timeframe: 2 years postoperative
Pain intensity as assessed by the Non-Communicating Children's Pain Checklist-Revised (NCCPC-R), and its post-operative version in non-verbal patients, with higher score indicating more pain
Timeframe: Baseline
Pain intensity as assessed by the Non-Communicating Children's Pain Checklist-Revised (NCCPC-R), and its post-operative version in non-verbal patients, with higher score indicating more pain
Timeframe: Postoperative day 1
Pain intensity as assessed by the Non-Communicating Children's Pain Checklist-Revised (NCCPC-R), and its post-operative version in non-verbal patients, with higher score indicating more pain
Timeframe: Postoperative day 2
Pain intensity as assessed by the Non-Communicating Children's Pain Checklist-Revised (NCCPC-R), and its post-operative version in non-verbal patients, with higher score indicating more pain
Timeframe: Postoperative day 5
Pain intensity as assessed by the Non-Communicating Children's Pain Checklist-Revised (NCCPC-R), and its post-operative version in non-verbal patients, with higher score indicating more pain
Timeframe: 6 weeks postoperative
Pain intensity as assessed by the Non-Communicating Children's Pain Checklist-Revised (NCCPC-R), and its post-operative version in non-verbal patients, with higher score indicating more pain
Timeframe: 6 months postoperative
Pain intensity as assessed by the Non-Communicating Children's Pain Checklist-Revised (NCCPC-R), and its post-operative version in non-verbal patients, with higher score indicating more pain
Timeframe: 1 year postoperative
Pain intensity as assessed by the Non-Communicating Children's Pain Checklist-Revised (NCCPC-R), and its post-operative version in non-verbal patients, with higher score indicating more pain
Timeframe: 2 years postoperative