Read about physical treatments for pain management. These treatments are aimed at treating pain and its underlying causes.
Pain can be caused by cancer, procedures, treatments or symptoms of cancer and treatments. Find out how you can manage and how your health-care team can help you.
Learn about pain relief medication and how to administer it, including patient controlled analgesia.
Learn about the 3P approach to pain management, which is a combination of psychological, physical and pharmacological (medications) strategies.
Find out how to recognize the signs of chronic pain at home and how chronic pain is assessed in medical settings.
You may be asked to join a clinical research trial or other types of research to help research teams study new treatments and better understand the impact of sickle cell disease on families. Learn about types of research and where to find more information about sickle cell disease research.
You and your child may be asked to join a clinical research trial or other types of research to help research teams study new treatments and better understand the impact of sickle cell disease on families. Learn about types of research and where to find more information about sickle cell disease research.
Learn about psychological treatments used to treat pain, such as hypnosis, biofeedback, and imagery.
Learn about chronic pain in children and teens. Chronic pain is pain that lasts longer than three months and requires various pain management techniques.
Learn about the factors that affect pain assessment such as our emotions, behaviour and cultural attitudes to pain.
Read about exercise and physiotherapy, and how they benefit pain management.
Learn about the different types of pain a child with cancer may experience, what causes pain and how long these types of pain last.
Discover the signs of chronic pain in an older child and how chronic pain is assessed in medical settings.
Find out how the 3P approach to pain management can help your teen manage their chronic pain.
Discover the signs of chronic pain in a young child and how chronic pain is assessed in medical settings.
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.
Chronic pain treatments involve a mix of psychological, physical and pharmacological (medication) strategies. Learn more about the 3Ps.
Discover how to use the 3P approach to manage chronic pain in a young child.
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.
Babies can feel pain. Learn about ways pain in newborns and babies can be assessed and techniques that can help ease pain.
Impacts of chronic pain on children are discussed, including impact on mood, school, socializing, hobbies, sleep, and family.
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 to help children and teens with chronic pain cope during the COVID-19 pandemic, and which medications are used to treat chronic pain.
Learn about the different sections and topics in the Sickle Cell Disease Learning Hub and what to expect from each one.
