Managing a Child with Chronic Belly Pain: Interdisciplinary Approach to Functional Abdominal Pain
Wednesday November 12, 2025
8PM EST
Functional abdominal pain disorders are a group of disorders of the gut-brain interaction (DGBIs) and affect up to 25% of children worldwide. Children with FAPDs have an impaired quality of life along with significant risk of psychiatric comorbidities. The pathophysiology is complex and involves numerous biopsychosocial factors, and with up to 40% of children having persistent symptoms despite therapeutic interventions, it’s important for the clinician to understand and be comfortable with using the most up-to-date and evidence-based therapeutic strategies for their patient with FAPD.
Managing a Child with Chronic Belly Pain: Interdisciplinary Approach to Functional Abdominal Pain aims to provide the audience with an understanding of a FAPD diagnosis using the current Rome IV criteria and the upcoming changes for the Rome V criteria; offer an outline of the available pharmaceutical options for pediatric FAPDs; discuss the role of dietary therapy, behavioral interventions and neurostimulation in pediatric FAPDs and their potential future applications and broad awareness of the findings in the new NASPGHAN-ESPGHAN FAP guideline.
Supported by an educational grant from NeurAxis.
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