Children who require heart transplants have complicated medical issues. Learn how physiotherapy can help your child before and after a heart transplant.
A heart transplant is surgery that replaces a heart that is not working properly with a healthy donor heart. Learn about heart transplants for children.
After a heart transplant, your child will need a variety of medications, including immunosuppressants, drugs to prevent infection, and drugs to lower blood pressure.
Read about exercise and physiotherapy, and how they benefit pain management.
Your child's health-care team may offer stem cell transplants to treat your child's sickle cell disease. Learn about the treatment, including its benefits and risks.
Learn about blood and marrow transplants (BMT), the reasons for BMT, how the marrow and immune system work, and the BMT health-care team.
Learn about the medical tests your child takes before a blood and marrow transplant.
Physiotherapy can help with pain, weakness, limited range of motion, and reduced physical ability. Learn how a physiotherapist can help your child or teenager with JIA management.
Learn what happens during your child's allogeneic stem cell transplant.
Your health-care team may offer red blood cell transfusions or stem cell transplants to treat your sickle cell disease. Learn about both treatments, including their benefits and risks.
A respiratory therapist (RT) is a health professional specially trained to help patients with breathing disorders. An RT will help care for your child after heart surgery.
Learn about the members of your child's blood and marrow transplant (BMT) medical and surgical teams.
Information about different heart conditions, including congenital heart conditions such as atrial septal defect and patent ductus arteriosus. Also discussed are arrhythmias, blue spells and congestive heart failure.
Following heart surgery, your child will need to exercise to keep their lungs clear. Read how deep breathing, splinted coughing and moving will help.
Read about the reasons you might need a liver transplant and how a liver transplant can affect your future.
Learn what is involved while preparing for your child's autologous transplant.
Learn about cardiology treatment teams, which focus on treating children with heart conditions. The specific role of each team member is discussed.
Learn how physiotherapy can help your teen before and after a Nuss bar procedure.
Read about the reasons you might need a kidney transplant and how a kidney transplant can affect your future.
Books and websites with information about heart conditions in children.
Detailed information on the importance of physiotherapy and exercise to the rehabilitation process after neurosurgery.
After a heart transplant, your child will need to stay in hospital for at least two to four weeks. Learn about what is involved in your child's recovery.
Learn how physiotherapy keep joints healthy for teens living with hemophilia.
Learn about the types of heart conditions that arise in children. Congenital heart defects and heart rhythm problems are among the conditions discussed.
