Learn how to identify neck pain in your child and properly care for them until they are feeling better.
Learn about cervical lymphadenitis, an infection of one or more lymph nodes in the neck.
Discusses pain management for common childhood pain and injuries such as ear infections, colic, and injections.
Thyroid cancer starts in the thyroid gland in the front of the neck. Find out how it is diagnosed, treated and the prognosis.
Some teens may experience pain or numbness after scoliosis surgery. Find out how other teens recovering from scoliosis surgery feel about their pain.
A Chiari malformation is when the lower part of the brain sits too low in your child's neck. Read about symptoms, causes, diagnosis and surgical treatment.
Your child needs to wear a cervical collar for various reasons. Find out why they might need one and how to properly care for your child and their collar.
Torticollis occurs when one of the neck muscles is tighter on one side than the other. Surgery may be needed to treat torticollis if physiotherapy and stretching exercises that are done in the first year of a child’s life are not enough.
Juvenile enthesitis-related arthritis includes swelling and pain where tendons and ligaments attach to bone. It affects more boys than girls.
Learn how to look after your child at home after varicocele embolization.
Learn about central venous lines, before your child's blood and marrow transplant.
The general surgery team focuses on a wide variety of congenital anomalies and acquired diseases of the digestive tract, abdomen, chest and lungs, head and neck, and endocrine organs.
Learn why your child acute myeloid leukemia (AML) will receive a central venous line (CVL) and how to care for it.
Read about various types and intensities of pain that a child may experience: acute pain, chronic pain, procedural pain, and recurrent pain.
This page describes how arthritis can affect dental health. It also explains how your dental check-ups may change if you have arthritis. Your arthritis may also be an important consideration if you need to have dental surgery.
A thyroglossal duct cyst is a growth inside the throat that sometimes needs to be surgically removed. Read about thyroglossal duct cyst surgery and recovery.
Learn how physiotherapy can help your teen before and after a Nuss bar procedure.
Your child needs medicine to manage pain. They may have an epidural infusion to get this medicine. This page explains what an epidural infusion is and what will happen when your child has one.
Learn how to properly care for your child at home after a port insertion.
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 congenital muscular torticollis, why it happens and what you can do to help your child.
After heart surgery, your child can practice a series of exercises to help them improve their posture and range of motion. Review the photos and instructions below to help your child perform each exercise correctly.
