Paediatric Pain

Pain can affect children and adolescents of all ages and may have a significant impact on physical function, school attendance, participation in sport and recreation, social engagement, sleep, emotional wellbeing, and overall quality of life. While many childhood injuries and illnesses resolve as expected, some children experience pain that persists beyond the normal healing timeframe or becomes recurrent over time.

Pain in children can be influenced by a range of factors, including injury, illness, growth and development, medical conditions, changes within the nervous system, physical activity levels, sleep, stress, and environmental factors. Understanding the unique factors contributing to a child's pain is essential to providing effective treatment and support.

At Neurovia, we understand that children are not simply small adults. We take the time to conduct thorough assessments and work closely with children, adolescents, parents, carers, and other healthcare professionals to develop individualised treatment plans that are tailored to the child's age, needs, goals, and circumstances.

Our approach focuses on helping children and adolescents better understand their pain, improve physical function, build confidence in movement, and return to meaningful activities. Treatment may include pain education, exercise therapy, movement retraining, activity modification, pacing strategies, family education, and support to develop long-term self-management skills.

We commonly assist children and adolescents experiencing:

• Persistent musculoskeletal pain

• Recurrent pain conditions

• Sports and activity-related pain

• Headaches and migraine

• Hypermobility-related pain

• CRPS

• Pain associated with neurological conditions

• Pain associated with disability

• Pain following injury, illness, or surgery

• Functional pain disorders

• Complex and persistent pain conditions

  
  

Our goal is to help children and adolescents participate fully in school, sport, family life, and the activities that are important to them while supporting families to better understand and manage their child's pain through compassionate, evidence-based care.