Discover how to assess acute pain in an older child (age six to 12) at home and in medical settings.
Learn about possible outcomes for premature babies.
Find out which substances teens use most often, and why, and what to do if you are concerned about your teen’s substance use.
Find out how you can use effective parenting to support the 3Ps of pain management for your teen with acute pain.
Find out how to recognize the signs of acute pain at home and how your teen's pain is assessed in medical settings.
Find out how the 3Ps of pain management can help your teen manage their acute pain.
Find out how you can use the 3Ps of pain management to support your older child (age six to 12).
The Pain Squad™ app helps children and teens with cancer to track their pain. Find out what this app does and the benefits of using it.
Learn about neuropathic pain. Neuropathic pain is caused by damage to the nervous system and is often described as burning or shooting pain.
Read about various types and intensities of pain that a child may experience: acute pain, chronic pain, procedural pain, and recurrent pain.
Learn about the different tools and sources of information that can help assess your child's pain.
Learn about children with pain: how pain is defined, why we feel pain, how it works and how to relieve pain.
Find out why and how you feel pain, whether from JIA or another source, such as a needle or cut, and learn the differences between acute and chronic pain.
Learn about techniques for pain management and the treatment of pain.
Read about the long-term consequences of pain on a child, the importance of a child's pain management. A discussion of pain myths is included.
Learn about causes and treatment of chest pain in children.
There are many ways to classify or categorize pain. Learn what these are and the factors that affect how much pain your child might feel.
Therapeutic clown Soleil and Child Life Specialist Rachel share tips to help us cope when we are in pain. Deep breathing, using a Hoberman sphere (breathing ball), is featured in this video.Please note that this video was filmed prior to COVID-19.
Learn about how we feel pain, what acute and chronic pain are and the most common causes of pain in people with sickle cell disease.
Learn about the safety of vaccines, their side effects, how they are given and what they protect your child against.
Read about pain assessment in babies (from newborns to one year olds). Both behavioral reactions and physical reactions to pain are assessed.
An overview of the components of a pain management plan for children.
Read about pain management. Children show pain differently, depending on age. Ideas for comforting children of all ages are included.
Find out how acute pain is identified and assessed, at home and in medical settings, in children not old enough to speak.
