Particularity when it comes to #ChronicPain, children and their families are often not believed. Investing time to talk to young people and their families about their pain ensures they feel heard and cared for, and increases the likelihood of engagement in care. #NPAW2023

Celebrating our 2023 #SAScienceAwards PhD Research Excellence finalist Dr Hayley Leake! Dr Leake is an avid science communicator recognised for her research into the treatment of chronic pain in adolescence. Youth Advisory Group for Chronic Pain UniSA

Wooohoooooo!!!! Winner!!!!!!!! Way to go Hayley Leake #SAScienceAwards

Congratulations to Dr Hayley Leake! Winner of the PhD Research Excellence Award at the 2023 #SAScienceAwards 🎉👏 Youth Advisory Group for Chronic Pain UniSA

📢Myth busting new #CRPS paper challenges🧐 assumption that those with early #CRPS have better rehab outcomes 📢 Our RUH Bath 🏥 clinical data proved they don't👈🏾 In fact people with CRPS => 1 year do just as well & sustain those improvements once home🏠

Woohoo! REGISTRATIONS are now OPEN for the #AusPainSoc conference in Darwin in 2024! Details here: ow.ly/Nq3Y50Q9HtC

📢 Join us for the inaugural PICH Down-Under webinar on Dec 8th, 12-2pm AET! 👩‍🔬Three amazing paediatric pain researchers will showcase their work. Open to all! Register: events.humanitix.com/pich-down-under PICH

Credible explanations - how do we explain to adolescents why they are in pain? It is a complex task and may have something to do with diagnostic uncertainty...🧵 Just published in EJP: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… Michael Rathleff Malene Kjær Bruun Henrik Riel Morten Hoegh, PhD Ben Darlow European Pain Federation EFIC®

💥***Fully-funded PhD opportunity investigating validation of children's pain*** 👇 Supervisors include myself, Lorimer Moseley, Dr. Melanie Noel, Rebecca Sharp. Ensure children in pain feel heard, accepted and understood! UniSA Pls share! Applications close Dec 20th

Looking forward to seeing everyone at the PICH Down Under webinar today! 👇👇

Not one, but *two* RCTs of novel behavioural #pain interventions for #adolescents in this month's PAIN Journal 🤩. Great to see these from Laura Simons Rikard Wicksell & Dr. Tonya Palermo Dr. Jennifer Stinson teams. Looking forward to even more progress in paediatric pain in 2024!

Very grateful to receive this grant from HDA - Healthy Development Adelaide to visit schools in South Australia to discuss the science of pain!

We asked people with chronic #pelvic #pain what they valued learning about their pain. Their four major responses are described in this paper, and in lead author Millie Mardon thread below. Paper now in PAIN Journal doi.org/10.1097/j.pain…

#painSTAR Applications open until 27MAY24. Join us in the Barossa Valley from 10-14NOV24 for this career changing event. More info and applications here: ow.ly/pFiH50RF4rV #AusPainSoc Spaces limited - hurry!

Huge congratulations Millie Mardon on successfully defending her PhD with flying colours! What a delight to co-supervise your journey Mil 👏 Be sure to follow Millie Mardon to see her important #pelvic #pain research!