Medication and Therapy Profiles for Pain and Symptom Management Among Adults With Cerebral Palsy.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the most common patterns of pain and symptom management strategies among adults living with cerebral palsy (CP), and to determine if there are differences by pain phenotype or co-occurring neurodevelopmental disorders.

Patients and methods

Federally insured beneficiaries were included if they had an ICD-9-CM/ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for CP (N=41,595). The study took place from January 10, 2024, to December 15, 2024. Medication and therapy prescription estimates for pain and CP symptom management were examined for the entire cohort, and between individuals with and without neurodevelopmental disorders and across pain phenotypes.

Results

The most common pharmaceutical/nontherapy-based pain and symptom management interventions included high frequency

SUBMITTER: Peterson MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11889543 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature