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      Acute pain: How to assess in older children

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      Discover how to assess acute pain in an older child (age six to 12) at home and in medical settings.

      Chronic pain: How to assess in young children

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      Discover the signs of chronic pain in a young child and how chronic pain is assessed in medical settings.

      Acute pain: How to assess in infants and toddlers

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      Find out how acute pain is identified and assessed, at home and in medical settings, in children not old enough to speak.

      Tools for measuring pain

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      Learn about the different tools and sources of information that can help assess your child's pain.

      Acute pain: How to assess in teens

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      ​Find out how to recognize the signs of acute pain at home and how your teen's pain is assessed in medical settings.

      Acute pain: How to assess in young children

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      Find out how to assess acute pain in your young child (age two to five) at home and in medical settings.

      Pain assessment

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      Learn about the process and goals of pain assessment to provide the information necessary to initiate optimal pain treatment strategies.

      Assessing cancer-related pain in children

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      Discover the signs of cancer-related pain in children and how cancer-related pain is assessed by the health-care team.

      Chronic pain: How to assess in older children

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      ​Discover the signs of chronic pain in an older child and how chronic pain is assessed in medical settings.

      Factors affecting pain assessment

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      Learn about the factors that affect pain assessment such as our emotions, behaviour and cultural attitudes to pain.

      Acute pain: How to treat and manage in infants and toddlers

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      ​Pain treatment involves a mix of psychological, physical and pharmacological (medication) strategies. Learn more about the 3Ps for acute pain.

      Pain: How to talk to kids about their pain

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      Learn about how to talk to your child about how much pain they are feeling and some strategies to help them cope with pain.

      Assessing babies (from newborns to one year)

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      Read about pain assessment in babies (from newborns to one year olds). Both behavioral reactions and physical reactions to pain are assessed.

      Assessing younger school-aged children (age five to eight)

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      Learn about pain assessment of younger school-age children. By this age, children begin to develop a sense of cause and effect concerning their pain.

      Pain

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      Learn about acute and chronic pain, including signs and symptoms, methods of assessment and the 3P approach to pain management.

      Pain in newborns and babies

      Babies can feel pain. Learn about ways pain in newborns and babies can be assessed and techniques that can help ease pain.

      Pain treatment

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      Learn about techniques for pain management and the treatment of pain.

      Longer-lasting pain: How to assess in infants and toddlers

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      Infants and toddlers can experience longer-lasting pain from certain conditions and repeated procedures. Find out how to assess longer-lasting pain in infants and toddlers at home and in medical settings.

      Chronic pain

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      Learn about chronic pain in children and teens. Chronic pain is pain that lasts longer than three months and requires various pain management techniques.

      Pain after an operation: Taking care of your child's pain at home

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      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.

      Chronic pain: How to assess in teens

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      ​Find out how to recognize the signs of chronic pain at home and how chronic pain is assessed in medical settings.

      Myths about pain

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      Learn to differentiate between myth and truth concerning children's pain. There are many common misconceptions of pain that should be dispelled.

      Pain at home: Taking care of your child

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      This page give advice on how to relieve a child's pain at home.

      Pain and cancer

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      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.

      Types of pain

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      Read about various types and intensities of pain that a child may experience: acute pain, chronic pain, procedural pain, and recurrent pain.

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