Queensland Interdisciplinary Paediatric Persistent Pain Service

The Queensland Interdisciplinary Paediatric Persistent Pain Service (QIPPPS) provides assessment and management services for young people experiencing persistent pain with a sociopsychobiomedical interdisciplinary approach, with presentations including:

• widespread musculoskeletal pain (including joint pain)
• back pain
• upper or lower limb pain
• Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
• pain at multiple locations
• headaches
• abdominal pain
• neuropathic pain
• nociplastic pain.

Our interdisciplinary team consists of medical staff, including Pain Specialists, Psychiatry and a Nurse Practitioner, Psychology, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Music Therapy.

As a statewide service we support children and young people experiencing persistent pain, and their families to confidently connect with life one step at a time. The Queensland Interdisciplinary Paediatric Persistent Pain Service lead in delivering, and advocating for, evidence based persistent pain services for children and young people, and their families throughout Queensland. As an interdisciplinary team, we achieve this through four strategies: People and Teamwork, Innovation, Partnerships and Quality.