Abdominal Pain
Learning Objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to identify and understand:
- Diagnostic Criteria for Functional Abdominal Pain (FAP) ROME IV
- DDx and Red Flags
- Assessment of FAP
- Treatment of FAP
Lindsay Craddock, NP at the Alberta Children’s Hospital
Lindsay Craddock is Nurse Practitioner at Alberta Children’s Hospital and an Adjunct Clinical Associate in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Calgary. She currently runs the Self- Management Headache Clinic in the Vi Riddell Pain and Rehabilitation Program alongside the neurology department. She previously ran the Functional Abdominal Pain Clinic alongside the GI department. Her main interest is patient and family education in relation to functional pain disorders.
Resources Mentioned in Session
- 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
- The Placebo Response in Pediatric Abdominal Pain-Related Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
- Childhood Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders: Child/Adolescent
- Centrally Mediated Disorders of Gastrointestinal Pain
- Functional Abdominal Pain In Children
- 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
- Median Arcuate Ligament Syndrome (MALS)
- Low fermentable carbohydrate diet (Low FODMAP)
- Detox Yoga
- Monash University FODMAP App
- Restorative Yoga Cue Cards (from our ECHO Education Event)