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Childhood trauma and chronic pain: What’s the relationship?

What you need to know about this latest research.

March 13, 2018 by

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The Children’s Bureau’s most recent child abuse statistics reveal that 7.2 million children were reported as abused in 2015. This number had unfortunately grown from the previous report by more than half a million children.

Dr. Paul Durham is a distinguished professor of biology at Missouri State University and the director for the Center for Biomedical and Life Sciences at the Jordan Valley Innovation Center. He is an international expert on orofacial pain and shares about the relationship with early childhood stress.

Durham says that studies of children in these traumatizing situations show an imbalance in the gut bacteria.

Early life stress causes chronic pain

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Filed Under: Faculty News Tagged With: Biology, Center for Biomedical and Life Sciences, college of natural and applied sciences, Discovery, Dr. Paul Durham, faculty, Faculty and Staff Page, IDEA Commons, Jordan Valley Innovation Center, research

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