June is Spina Bifida Awareness Month. Learn about the four different types of spina bifida, their causes and how it is diagnosed.
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a genetic disorder that causes muscle weakness and muscle atrophy (shrinking), and can affect a child’s ability to speak, walk, and breathe.
Detailed information on the effects that brain tumour treatment may have on a child's fertility and pubertal development.
Learn about the benefits and limitations of the traditional/classic ketogenic diet therapy for childhood epilepsy, how it is started and how it is used at home.
Tethered cord occurs when the spinal cord gets stuck to the bottom of the spinal column and is stretched. Learn about how tethered cord is treated.
Chorea is chaotic, random, repetitive, purposeless movements that usually involve multiple body parts. Sydenham's chorea (SC) is the most common form of acquired chorea in children.
Learn about the four different ketogenic diet therapies for childhood epilepsy, which may be tried when medication has failed to control seizures and surgery is not an option.
An in-depth look at treatment possibilities for other tumour types such as a pituitary adenoma, a schwannoma, a meningioma, and PNETs.
This page describes what is involved in the treatment of rhabdoid tumours.
Read about the types of epilepsy and the suggested treatments.
Cells in the mouth can be affected by chemotherapy and radiation to the head and neck area. Learn how to help your child avoid infection with good mouth care.
Learn about ways you can manage the stress of parenting your child with leukemia.
Learn how to recognize when siblings of a child with leukemia feel left out, guilty, or resentful of the attention on their sick brother or sister.
Learn how gene changes can cause acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).
Find strategies to help children manage their cancer related symptoms.
Learn what you can do to help your child cope with leukemia treatment, procedures, and side effects.
Learn why children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) are at risk for becoming overweight.
Learn how leukemia is diagnosed and which tests help doctors determine its subtypes.
Learn about services available for patients and families to assist with finances during your child's leukemia treatment.
Learn what to expect after your child with leukemia goes into remission.
Discover the different types of surgery that can help lengthen or straighten a limb.
Learn about the exercises your child can perform to help minimize swelling and maintain their range of motion and muscle strength after limb lengthening and reconstruction with a femoral frame.
Learn about the possible complications your child may experience after limb lengthening and reconstruction surgery and how to respond.
Find out how limb reconstruction surgery can lengthen and repair shorter or crooked limbs.
The Ottawa personal decision guide can be a useful decision-making tool, which can be used when deciding whether or not to have scoliosis surgery.
