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“Lastly, it’s an important topic for discussion because there’s been a bit of a conundrum of how to diagnose and accurately treat these patients. Functional abdominal pain has a huge impact on patients in terms of health care utilization and quality of life there are opportunities for us to treat these patients better,” Lacy said. In the general population, the prevalence of centrally mediated abdominal pain syndrome is about 1%, but for referrals to gastroenterologist, it’s actually much more common. “It’s important for a number of different reasons, one is it’s much more common than we think. While present in up to 38 of all patients with IBD (), it is associated with decreased quality of life and increased disease-specific suffering and psychiatric comorbidities (). Lacy, MD, PhD, FACG, of Mayo Clinic, outlined how to diagnose and treat functional abdominal pain, also known as centrally mediated abdominal pain. Chronic abdominal pain represents one of the main disease burdens in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Chronic Abdominal Wall Pain is many-a-times misdiagnosed as abdominal pain. But this pain is more localised, i.e., the pain is limited to the abdomen wall. LAS VEGAS - In a Healio Gastroenterology video exclusive, Brian E. Chronic Abdominal Wall Pain (CAWP) is also a disorder where you feel sharp and continuous pain in the abdomen. If you continue to have this issue please contact to Healio 141-Chronic Functional Abdominal Pain People with functional gastrointestinal (GI) disorders can have a variety of symptoms that range from painless diarrhea or constipation, to pain associated with diarrhea and/or constipation (usually called irritable bowel syndrome).