Response to the Commentary: A Worldwide Call for Multimodal Inpatient Treatment for Children and Adolescents Suffering from Chronic Pain and Pain-related Disability

The Influence of Anxiety Reduction on Clinical Response to Pediatric Chronic Pain Rehabilitation

“…3 In Germany, an intensive interdisciplinary program demonstrated improvements over a wait-list control for children with CP, with immediate effects in school functioning, functional disability, catastrophizing, and depressed mood, and delayed effects in anxiety and pain intensity. 11 In the United States, several programs have demonstrated the benefit of both inpatient and day-hospital interventions for pediatric CP, 7,12,13 including the program discussed in this paper. 14 One construct central to pain and pain-associated disability is anxiety.…”