Pain, physical and psychosocial functioning in adolescents at-risk for developing chronic pain: A longitudinal case-control study

The burden experienced by adults with chronic pain extends to their children, who are at increased risk for developing chronic pain compared to children of parents without pain.32 Research with clinical, community, and epidemiological samples consistently shows increased risk of chronic pain and disability among offspring of adults who have chronic pain,11,28,53,59 and a large (n>5000) family linkage study demonstrated that maternal and paternal chronic pain increased the odds of chronic pain in adolescents.
Source: The Journal of Pain - Category: Materials Science Authors: Tags: Original Reports Source Type: research