Effects of childhood trauma on pain‐related distress in adults

BACKGROUND: Much of the work in post-musculoskeletal (MSK) trauma and distress has been conducted through frameworks that start from the injury and go forward to better understand the trajectories and predictors of recovery. However, stress-diatheses models suggest that reactions to trauma are shaped by pre-existing experiences of the person more than the parameters of the event itself. In this study, we explore the effects of adverse childhood …