Find out how to reduce the pain of needle pokes for your baby.
Read about various types and intensities of pain that a child may experience: acute pain, chronic pain, procedural pain, and recurrent pain.
Discover how to assess acute pain in an older child (age six to 12) at home and in medical settings.
Babies can feel pain. Learn about ways pain in newborns and babies can be assessed and techniques that can help ease pain.
Find out how to offer sucrose or breastfeeding to ease your child's pain from needle pokes.
Learn how to replace negative thoughts with more positive thoughts to help reduce stress, tension and pain.
Pain treatment involves a mix of psychological, physical and pharmacological (medication) strategies. Learn more about the 3Ps for acute pain.
Find out how the 3Ps of pain management can help your teen manage their 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 relaxation techniques, such as progressive muscle relaxation and hypnosis, that can be used for pain management in children.
Find out how to recognize the signs of acute pain at home and how your teen's pain is assessed in medical settings.
Find out how you can use the 3Ps of pain management to support your older child (age six to 12).
Find out how you can use the 3P approach to support your child in acute pain.
Find out how acute pain is identified and assessed, at home and in medical settings, in children not old enough to speak.
Learn about other types of pain, including recurrent, procedural, and palliative pain. Read about how they are treated. Lumbar punctures are discussed.
Learn how the body experiences acute pain.
Find out how to assess acute pain in your young child (age two to five) at home and in medical settings.
Learn techniques to help distract your child from, and manage, their pain in the hospital and at home.
Learn about the factors that affect pain assessment such as our emotions, behaviour and cultural attitudes to pain.
Learn about the 3P approach to pain management, which is a combination of psychological, physical and pharmacological (medications) strategies.
Learn about behavioural strategies such as biofeedback and CBT. These strategies can be used for effective pain management for children.
Learn about medications used to enhance pain management. Medications such as corticosteroids, anti-depressants, and sedatives are discussed.
You can still work on breastfeeding while your baby is in the hospital. Learn how to prepare for breastfeeding and recognize your baby’s feeding cues.
Discover the CARD system, which offers strategies your child or teen can use to cope with the pain and fear associated with vaccination.
