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Not just ‘growing pains’: 1 in 5 Australian kids live with chronic pain, but it’s often invisible

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par Joshua Pate, Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy, University of Technology Sydney
Mark Hutchinson, Professor in Neuroimmunopharmacology, University of Adelaide

Most children bounce back from pain after an injury or illness. But for one in five – approximately 877,000 children in Australia – the pain continues.

Clinicians call this chronic or persistent pain, meaning pain that lasts longer than three months. Chronic pain in children such as headaches or abdominal pain may be caused by an injury or underlying condition (for example, arthritis).…

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