Interview with Mercedes Rodriguez Celin, pediatrician at Shriners Hospital for Children, Chicago Who are you & what experience do you have with Pain & OI? I am Mercedes Rodriguez Celin; I am a pediatrician from Argentina with a specialty in Growth and Development. I worked for ten years at the Skeletal Dysplasia Clinic at Garrahan…
Background Pain is reported to be the main challenge for people with OI besides fractures. More than 60 percent of people with OI have chronic pain, and the percentage and complexity increase with age. In spite of this, there is very little information about how you can manage pain as a child or adult with…
On January 25th 2022 we organized the kick-off of the Pain & OI project, which is a collaboration between the OIFE and the Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation (USA) and a group of dedicated professionals who have experience on pain management, pain research and/or pain & OI. We had 21 participants from 10 different countries at the…
Dear members of the international OI-community! In Australia the champagne has been uncorked already, but in the rest of the world we are in different ways preparing the celebration of another year coming to an end. It is also a celebration of the opportunities of a New Year called 2022, which we hope will be…
