Palliative care includes reducing the physical, psychological, social and spiritual suffering that is associated with serious illness. Learn about the role palliative care providers can have in your child’s care.
Learn about other types of pain, including recurrent, procedural, and palliative pain. Read about how they are treated. Lumbar punctures are discussed.
An overview of the components of a pain management plan for children.
Read about physical treatments for pain management. These treatments are aimed at treating pain and its underlying causes.
Learn about the 3P approach to pain management, which is a combination of psychological, physical and pharmacological (medications) strategies.
Read about the long-term consequences of pain on a child, the importance of a child's pain management. A discussion of pain myths is included.
Learn about the benefits of using massage and TENS for effective pain management.
Learn about techniques for pain management and the treatment of pain.
Read about exercise and physiotherapy, and how they benefit pain management.
Babies can feel pain. Learn about ways pain in newborns and babies can be assessed and techniques that can help ease pain.
Discusses pain management for common childhood pain and injuries such as ear infections, colic, and injections.
Learn about behavioural strategies such as biofeedback and CBT. These strategies can be used for effective pain management for children.
Find suggestions to help your teen manage their sickle cell pain using positive coping behaviours.
Teens living with hemophilia can learn about pains related to their bleeds, including the difference between acute and chronic pain.
Find out how to recognize the signs of chronic pain at home and how chronic pain is assessed in medical settings.
Learn about psychological treatments used to treat pain, such as hypnosis, biofeedback, and imagery.
Pain treatment involves a mix of psychological, physical and pharmacological (medication) strategies. Learn more about the 3Ps for acute pain.
Find out how you can use effective parenting to support the 3Ps of pain management for your teen with acute pain.
Learn about the supports available to families coping with pregnancy and infant loss, including perinatal palliative care.
Find out how the 3P approach to pain management can help your teen manage their chronic pain.
Learn about acute and chronic pain, including signs and symptoms, methods of assessment and the 3P approach to pain management.
Learn about chronic pain in children and teens. Chronic pain is pain that lasts longer than three months and requires various pain management techniques.
Discover how to assess acute pain in an older child (age six to 12) at home and in medical settings.
Learn about relaxation techniques, such as progressive muscle relaxation and hypnosis, that can be used for pain management in children.
