Parent-reported chronic pain is more than twice as prevalent in American children with developmental disabilities (13.2 per cent) than in those without (5.5 per cent) according to the first national study of its kind published in JAMA Pediatrics. The study covered 10 disabilities. Children with cerebral palsy were most likely to experience pain (33 per cent).
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