Some teens may experience pain or numbness after scoliosis surgery. Find out how other teens recovering from scoliosis surgery feel about their pain.
Read about the experiences of teenagers who have had scoliosis surgery and their first hand accounts of their fears, relationships, and recovery.
Read about what other teenagers with scoliosis went through when they had surgery.
Learn how to replace negative thoughts with more positive thoughts to help reduce stress, tension and pain.
The first step to problem solving is identifying the problem. This page offers tips to help you recognize when there is a problem and then identify the problem as clearly as possible.
Find out how the 3P approach to pain management can help your teen manage their chronic pain.
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.
Find out how negative and positive thinking can affect how you feel and how you manage stress and pain.
Watch video interviews with teens that have had surgery for their scoliosis. Learn about their reasons for deciding to have scoliosis surgery.
Find out what to expect as your child recovers from limb lengthening and reconstruction surgery.
Discover the signs of cancer-related pain in children and how cancer-related pain is assessed by the health-care team.
Most children have at least some pain after an operation, which is called post-operative pain. Learn about relieving a child's post-operative pain at home.
Read about the experiences of teenagers who have had scoliosis surgery and the first hand accounts of their fears, relationships, and recovery.
Chronic pain treatments involve a mix of psychological, physical and pharmacological (medication) strategies. Learn more about the 3Ps.
When it is time to go home following your scoliosis surgery you may feel nervous or afraid. Learn about some coping techniques that may help you.
Learn about how to talk to your child about how much pain they are feeling and some strategies to help them cope with pain.
This page give advice on how to relieve a child's pain at home.
Discover how to use the 3P approach to manage cancer-related pain in children.
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.
Listen to what other teens have to say about the impact of cancer on lifestyle and making healthy choices now and in the future.
Find out how PCA and NCA help your child get relief from severe, short-term pain in the hospital.
Discover how to use the 3P approach to manage chronic pain in a young child.
