Dr. Laura Simons, PHD

• Pain Medicine

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• The University Of Georgia

  2009

• Boston Children's Hospital

  Fellowship Hospital, 2009

• University Of Florida Health Science Center

  Internship Hospital, 2005

• Ohio University

  Undergraduate School, 2001

• Fear of pain in the context of intensive pain rehabilitation among children and adolescents with neuropathic pain: Associations with treatment response, 2012-10-17

• Parents - To Help or Hinder Pain Memories in Children, 2015-02-05

• Pain coping profiles in adolescents with chronic pain, 2008-10-19

• Health-Related Quality of Life and Perceived Need for Mental Health Services in Adolescent Solid Organ Transplant Recipients, 2014-01-31

• Living life with my child's pain: The Parent Pain Acceptance Questionnaire (PPAQ), 2014-07-16

• Predicting post-surgical satisfaction in adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis: The role of pre-surgical functioning and expectations, 2016-04-08

• Cumulative effects of multiple pains sites in youth with chronic pain, 2018-03-02

• Pain prevalence and trajectories following pediatric spinal fusion surgery, 2013-11-30

• Patients with pain are not all the same: Considering fear of pain and other individual factors in treatment outcomes, 2014-02-04

• Readiness to change in pediatric chronic pain: Initial validation of adolescent and parent versions of the Pain Stages of Change Questionnaire, 2011-07-29

• Fear of pain in children and adolescents with neuropathic pain and CRPS, 2015-10-05

• Fear of Pain in Pediatric Headache, 2014-05-08

• Fear and Reward Circuit Alterations in Pediatric CRPS, 2016-01-19

• Connecting parents of children with chronic pain through art therapy, 2013-09-01

• Pediatric Pain Screening Tool (PPST): Rapid identification of risk in youth with pain complaints, 2015-04-15

• Living in Fear of Your Child's Pain: The Parent Fear of Pain Questionnaire, 2015-01-14

• Anxiety Sensitivity and Fear of Pain in Pediatric Headache Patients, 2014-06-13

• A Day-Hospital Approach to Treatment of Pediatric Complex Regional Pain Syndrome: Initial Functional Outcomes, 2013-02-01

• The Fear Avoidance Model of Chronic Pain: Examination for pediatric application, 2012-07-24

• The longitudinal impact of parent distress and behavior on functional outcomes among youth with chronic pain, 2016-03-15

• The interplay of pain-related self-efficacy and fear on functional outcomes among youth with headache, 2014-01-23

• Pain catastrophizing in children with chronic pain and their parents: Proposed clinical reference points and re-examination of the PCS measure, 2014-08-29