Find out how you can replace unhelpful thoughts with helpful ones and practice mindful observation to help reduce stress and anxiety.
Learn to differentiate between myth and truth concerning children's pain. There are many common misconceptions of pain that should be dispelled.
Learn about the benefits of using massage and TENS for effective pain management.
Find out what happens when a patient enters the operating room to when they are moved into their room. A guide for what to expect during scoliosis surgery.
Learn about making sleep time easier and safer for your newborn baby.
Babies can feel pain. Learn about ways pain in newborns and babies can be assessed and techniques that can help ease pain.
Staying in a hospital can be difficult. Find out tips about how to make your hospital stay a little easier while you are recovering from scoliosis surgery.
Masturbation means touching your own genitals and intimate areas. Learn more about this normal, safe and healthy part of exploring your sexuality.
Find out what to expect as your child recovers from limb lengthening and reconstruction surgery.
Learn techniques to help distract your child from, and manage, their pain in the hospital and at home.
Find out how to reduce the pain of needle pokes for your baby.
Read about the experiences of teenagers who have had scoliosis surgery and their first hand accounts of their fears, relationships, and recovery.
Learn how to help your child's burn injury heal when your child comes home from the hospital and between visits to the outpatient clinic.
Learn how you can foster positive thinking in your child.
Learn how to give your child injections into the muscle (intramuscular) at home and tips to make the injections less painful for your child.
An overview of the different causes, symptoms and treatments of this common eye infection in children known as pink eye.
Find out how you can help your child cope with difficult emotions by learning and talking about them.
Your child needs to take the medicine called leuprolide. This information sheet explains what leuprolide does, how to give it, and what side effects or problems your child may have when she takes this medicine.
Vulvovaginitis is skin irritation around the vulva and vagina that is common in young children. Read about the symptoms and treatment of vulvovaginitis.
Read about some of the advantages of having surgery to correct scoliosis, as well as some of the advantages of not having surgery.
Children with chronic health issues may be more likely to be bullied and also have parents that are overprotective. Learn what you can do to deal with these issues.
