Discover how to assess acute pain in an older child (age six to 12) at home and in medical settings.
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 to recognize the signs of acute pain at home and how your teen's pain is assessed in medical settings.
Find out how you can use effective parenting to support the 3Ps of pain management for your teen with acute pain.
Read about various types and intensities of pain that a child may experience: acute pain, chronic pain, procedural pain, and recurrent pain.
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).
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.
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.
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 children with pain: how pain is defined, why we feel pain, how it works and how to relieve pain.
Read about the pain that premature babies may experience because of illness, injury, or from painful procedures, both diagnostic and therapeutic.
There are many ways to classify or categorize pain. Learn what these are and the factors that affect how much pain you might feel.
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.
Learn about techniques for pain management and the treatment of pain.
Read about the assessment of pain in babies. From birth, babies are capable of feeling pain very acutely. Learn about tests that are run, such as the PIPP.
Learn about causes and treatment of chest pain in children.
Most children have at least some pain after an operation, which is called post-operative pain. Learn about relieving a child's post-operative pain at home.
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.
Read about physical treatments for pain management. These treatments are aimed at treating pain and its underlying causes.
Learn about the different types of pain a child with cancer may experience, what causes pain and how long these types of pain last.
Read about pain assessment in babies (from newborns to one year olds). Both behavioral reactions and physical reactions to pain are assessed.
Learn about the 3P approach to pain management, which is a combination of psychological, physical and pharmacological (medications) strategies.