Learn about techniques for pain management and the treatment of pain.
Discover how to assess acute pain in an older child (age six to 12) at home and in medical settings.
Learn about the process and goals of pain assessment to provide the information necessary to initiate optimal pain treatment strategies.
Find out which substances teens use most often, and why, and what to do if you are concerned about your teen’s substance use.
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.
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.
Learn about how to help children and teens with chronic pain cope during the COVID-19 pandemic, and which medications are used to treat chronic pain.
Discover how to use the 3P approach to manage chronic pain in a young child.
Read about various types and intensities of pain that a child may experience: acute pain, chronic pain, procedural pain, and recurrent pain.
Chronic pain treatments involve a mix of psychological, physical and pharmacological (medication) strategies. Learn more about the 3Ps.
Find out how the 3P approach to pain management can help your teen manage their chronic pain.
Pain treatment involves a mix of psychological, physical and pharmacological (medication) strategies. Learn more about the 3Ps for acute 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.
Find out how you can use the 3Ps of pain management to support your older child (age six to 12).
Read about some of the complications that can arise after having scoliosis surgery. Trusted answers from The Hospital for Sick Children.
There are many ways to classify or categorize pain. Learn what these are and the factors that affect how much pain you might feel.
Learn about children with pain: how pain is defined, why we feel pain, how it works and how to relieve pain.
Read about physical treatments for pain management. These treatments are aimed at treating pain and its underlying causes.
Learn about neuropathic pain. Neuropathic pain is caused by damage to the nervous system and is often described as burning or shooting pain.
Learn about the different types of pain a child with cancer may experience, what causes pain and how long these types of pain last.
Learn about the different tools and sources of information that can help assess your child's 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 how we feel pain, what acute and chronic pain are and the most common causes of pain in people with sickle cell disease.
