Functional Abdominal Pain | Pain #3.11
Learning Objectives:
- Diagnostic criteria for functional abdominal pain (FAP) ROME IV
- DDx and red flags
- Assessment of FAP
- Treatment of FAP
Lindsay Craddock, NP, Alberta Children’s Hospital
Lindsay Craddock is a nurse practitioner who works at Alberta Children’s hospital and runs the Self-management Headache Clinic and previously helped run the Functional Abdominal Pain Clinic. She has a special interest in dysautonomias, headaches and ensuring that the pediatric population remains functional despite pain, while working to reduce pain days
Resources Mentioned in Session
- Provincial pediatric GI referral quick reference
- Management of functional abdominal pain and irritable bowel syndrome in children and adolescents
- Classification of pediatric functional gastrointestinal disorders related to abdominal pain using Rome III vs. Rome IV criterions
- Chronic Pain in Children and Adolescents: Diagnosis and Treatment of Primary Pain Disorders in Head, Abdomen, Muscles and Joints
- Difficulties in the Diagnosis and Management of Functional or Recurrent Abdominal Pain in Children
- Childhood Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders: Child/Adolescent
- Centrally Mediated Disorders of Gastrointestinal Pain
- Functional Abdominal Pain In Children
- The Placebo Response in Pediatric Abdominal Pain-Related Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
- Home-Based Hypnotherapy Self-exercises vs Individual Hypnotherapy With a Therapist for Treatment of Pediatric Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Functional Abdominal Pain, or Functional Abdominal Pain Syndrome: A Randomized Clinical Trial