Dr. Melanie Noel and the PEAK Research Lab team welcome you!
Pain Education, Advocacy, Knowledge
Early interventions for pain can reduce chronic pain progression, severity, disability, and costs.
Virtual Tools for Chronic Pain
Engagement in self-management strategies are critical, and virtual care interventions can assist with daily management of chronic pain.
The issue:
With the COVID-19 pandemic, access to treatment and care has been disrupted, affecting how youth can manage their pain day-to-day. Access to care was a problem before the pandemic, and needs to be addressed now.
What we found:
We found many evidence-based virtual care interventions for children's chronic pain and many more will soon be tested and available.
What's next:
We are working with youth and their families to develop a Kids’ Pain Portal, which will link youth and their families to free, evidence-based education and treatments for pain and mental health. This online portal will use a stepped care model, to ensure families have on-demand access to tools and resources, anywhere and anytime, where different levels of need will be linked with different modalities of care.
Pain is real. Change the conversation.