Welcome to the FPA’s Video Series featuring presentations from the 2024 FPA Conference. The topic for today’s webinar is Trauma and the Experience of Facial Pain presented by Leesa Scott-Morrow, PhD, JD, LP, Doctor of Clinical Psychology. Dr. Scott-Morrow is a practicing, fully licensed clinical psychologist. Her practice involves a blend of clinical work, teaching, and writing. Dr. Scott-Morrow served as attending faculty in the Family Practice Residency at the University of Texas Medical Branch, and in the Psychiatry Residency at the Indiana University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Scott-Morrow served as faculty at the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry, in the Division of TMD and Orofacial Pain, and also within the Department of Neurosurgery Facial Pain Clinic, at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine.
Although the video is not live, we encourage you to comment and ask questions. Your participation and feedback will help us gauge interest in a variety of topics to better serve the community with future webinars. The Facial Pain Association (FPA) does not endorse any product, doctor, procedure, medical institution, or its staff.
Thank you for this webinar. Question for Dr Scott-Morrow: Clearly TN and other chronic pain diseases can cause trauma/PTSD symptoms. Is there research into the converse: whether and how trauma or stress contribute to chronic pain diseases? I’m struck, for instance, by the high prevalence of headache disorders among Indigenous peoples, groups that also have a high incidence of trauma/historical trauma, and wonder if a connection has been hypothesized.
There is research into caregiver PTSD. This is a long-term stressor that leads to complex PTSD (C-PTSD), and it is harder to treat than single-stressor traumas. My daughter had TN, , ON, and cluster headaches, and she died from an awful combination of medications prescribed to treat her facial pain. I now have CPTSD (although I've had lots of other traumas). Caregiver PTSD leads to heightened risk for contracting 28 different categories of infectious diseases, most notably respiratory and skin infections, as well as UTI's. If it's an inflammatory disease, we're at risk for developing it. Chronic pain and chronic illnesses, including IBS and IBD, Crone's disease, rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, and MS are on our horizon. We are at increased risk for heart attack, dementia, stroke, and cancer. I am not making this up: Caregiving kills the caregiver. Yes, caregiver PTSD is a very real thing.
Welcome to the FPA’s Video Series featuring presentations from the 2024 FPA Conference. The topic for today’s webinar is Trauma and the Experience of Facial Pain presented by Leesa Scott-Morrow, PhD, JD, LP, Doctor of Clinical Psychology. Dr. Scott-Morrow is a practicing, fully licensed clinical psychologist. Her practice involves a blend of clinical work, teaching, and writing. Dr. Scott-Morrow served as attending faculty in the Family Practice Residency at the University of Texas Medical Branch, and in the Psychiatry Residency at the Indiana University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Scott-Morrow served as faculty at the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry, in the Division of TMD and Orofacial Pain, and also within the Department of Neurosurgery Facial Pain Clinic, at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine.
Although the video is not live, we encourage you to comment and ask questions. Your participation and feedback will help us gauge interest in a variety of topics to better serve the community with future webinars. The Facial Pain Association (FPA) does not endorse any product, doctor, procedure, medical institution, or its staff.
Thank you for this webinar. Question for Dr Scott-Morrow: Clearly TN and other chronic pain diseases can cause trauma/PTSD symptoms. Is there research into the converse: whether and how trauma or stress contribute to chronic pain diseases? I’m struck, for instance, by the high prevalence of headache disorders among Indigenous peoples, groups that also have a high incidence of trauma/historical trauma, and wonder if a connection has been hypothesized.
There is research into caregiver PTSD. This is a long-term stressor that leads to complex PTSD (C-PTSD), and it is harder to treat than single-stressor traumas. My daughter had TN, , ON, and cluster headaches, and she died from an awful combination of medications prescribed to treat her facial pain. I now have CPTSD (although I've had lots of other traumas). Caregiver PTSD leads to heightened risk for contracting 28 different categories of infectious diseases, most notably respiratory and skin infections, as well as UTI's. If it's an inflammatory disease, we're at risk for developing it. Chronic pain and chronic illnesses, including IBS and IBD, Crone's disease, rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, and MS are on our horizon. We are at increased risk for heart attack, dementia, stroke, and cancer. I am not making this up: Caregiving kills the caregiver. Yes, caregiver PTSD is a very real thing.