Learn about causes and treatment of chest pain in children.
The pleural space can fill up with fluid or air after a serious injury or operation, or as a result of disease. Chest tubes are placed into the pleural space to drain the fluid or air.
Learn about how we feel pain, what acute and chronic pain are and the most common causes of pain in people with sickle cell disease.
Find out how you can use comfortable positions and distractions with your child to ease pain from needle pokes.
Discover how to perform lung volume recruitment with your child to help them take deep breaths.
Learn about techniques for pain management and the treatment of pain.
Sickle cell disease symptoms can be different for each person, but the most common symptoms are anemia and pain. Read about why these symptoms happen in people with sickle cell disease.
Learn about behavioural strategies such as biofeedback and CBT. These strategies can be used for effective pain management for children.
Pain treatment involves a mix of psychological, physical and pharmacological (medication) strategies. Learn more about the 3Ps for acute pain.
Learn how to identify neck pain in your child and properly care for them until they are feeling better.
Many people take short, shallow breaths when they feel stress or pain, which makes the heart work harder to get oxygen throughout the body and increases muscle tension. Learn how to practise deep breathing to reduce tension and pain.
Belly breathing is a deep breathing exercise that can help you relax. Discover practice tips to help you learn this relaxation technique.
Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) involves recurrent episodes of fever accompanied by symptoms of abdominal pain, chest pain, joint pain and/or skin rashes. Learn about causes, tests and treatments for FMF.
Find out how to treat and manage longer-lasting pain in infants.
Learn about the equipment used during, and following an operation for scoliosis. Trusted answers from The Hospital for Sick Children.
In addition to anemia and pain, some people with sickle cell disease can have other less common complications. Learn about some of the complications that can happen because of sickle cell disease.
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 care for child at home after a CVL insertion procedure.
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.
Rheumatic fever can develop when strep throat is not treated fully with antibiotics. Find out about what symptoms children with rheumatic fever experience and how it is treated.
Learn why your child acute myeloid leukemia (AML) will receive a central venous line (CVL) and how to care for it.
Pityriasis rosea is a harmless rash that can appear on the back, chest or abdomen. Find out its causes and how it is diagnosed and treated.
Pneumonia is an infection of the lungs and lower respiratory tract. Learn about the signs and symptoms of community-acquired pneumonia and how to take care of your child.
