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Is It All Worthwhile? Effectiveness of Intensive Interdisciplinary Pain Treatment

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Abstract

Chronic pain in childhood is likely to persist into adulthood, if not treated adequately. At the beginning of this chapter, we shortly present the long-term consequences of no or insufficient treatment of chronic pain in children and adolescents. Then, we discuss the effectiveness of the inpatient treatment programme of the German Paediatric Pain Centre (GPPC) described in detail in this manual. Finally, results of international studies on the effectiveness of similar treatment programmes for children and adolescents are summarised.

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    Lorin Stahlschmidt, Michael Dobe, Boris Zernikow & Julia Wager

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Stahlschmidt, L., Dobe, M., Zernikow, B., Wager, J. (2019). Is It All Worthwhile? Effectiveness of Intensive Interdisciplinary Pain Treatment. In: Dobe, M., Zernikow, B. (eds) Practical Treatment Options for Chronic Pain in Children and Adolescents. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19201-3_16

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