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Table 2 Pain diagnoses

From: Characteristics of highly impaired children with severe chronic pain: a 5-year retrospective study on 2249 pediatric pain patients

 

n

% (total sample)*

Headache diagnosis (n = 1676)

 

74.5

Migraine

956

42.5

Migraine with aura

157

7.0

Tension type headache (TTH)

1071

47.6

Secondary Headache

82

3.6

Trigeminal Neuralgia

9

0.4

Cranial Neuralgia

6

0.3

Chronic pain disorder with somatic and psychological factors (Pain location head)

542

24.1

Others

81

3.6

Abdominal pain diagnosis (n = 501)

 

22.3

Functional Abdominal Pain

253

11.2

Chronic pain disorder with somatic and psychological factors (Pain location abdomen)

204

9.1

Abdominal pain-related Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders other than functional abdominal pain

27

1.3

Other§

17

0.7

Musculoskeletal pain diagnosis (n = 408)

 

18.1

Chronic pain disorder with somatic and psychological factors (Pain location extremities)

179

7.9

Growing Pain

51

2.3

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome or other peripheral neuropathic pain

58

2.6

Chronic pain disorder with somatic and psychological factors (Pain location back)

81

3.6

Other back Pain||

54

2.4

Other musculoskeletal pain

89

4.0

Mixed Pain Diagnoses (of the diagnoses mentioned above) (diagnosis a + diagnosis b)

 

% of diagnosis b in diagnosis a

% of diagnosis a in diagnosis b

Migraine** + TTH

670

67.5

62.6

Migraine + Chronic pain disorder with somatic and psychological factors (head)

200

20.1

36.9

Migraine** + functional abdominal pain††

73

7.3

15.1

Migraine** + back pain

12

1.2

11.3

TTH + functional abdominal pain††

101

9.4

20.8

TTH + back pain

15

1.4

14.2

functional abdominal pain†† + back pain

20

4.1

18.9

  1. Note: * cumulative percentages exceed 100% due to multiple diagnoses per patient.
  2. † e.g. medication overuse headache, posttraumatic headache.
  3. ‡e.g. headache unspecified.
  4. § e.g. abdominal pain unspecified.
  5. || e.g. back pain unspecified.
  6. ¶ e.g. spinal muscular athrophy, (rheumatoid) arthritis, Epidermolysis Bullosa, stump pain, phantom pain, muscular dystrophy, tumor, fractures, etc.
  7. ** including migraine without aura and with aura.
  8. †† including functional abdominal pain, chronic pain disorder (abdomen) and other abdominal pain-related Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders.