Discusses pain management for common childhood pain and injuries such as ear infections, colic, and injections.
Minor ankle injuries, such as ankle sprains or minor fractures to the fibula, are common in childhood. These injuries tend to heal quickly. Learn more about minor ankle injuries and their treatment.
Discover how to assess acute pain in an older child (age six to 12) at home and in medical settings.
Find out how to recognize the signs of acute pain at home and how your teen's pain is assessed in medical settings.
Burns can lead to permanent scars. Find out how to prevent your child from getting a burn injury and what to do if a burn does occur.
Read about physical treatments for pain management. These treatments are aimed at treating pain and its underlying causes.
Learn about benign acute childhood myositis, a condition that causes muscle pain in children with viral infections.
Find out how to assess acute pain in your young child (age two to five) at home and in medical settings.
Find out how the 3Ps of pain management can help your teen manage their acute pain.
Read about exercise and physiotherapy, and how they benefit pain management.
Find out how you can use effective parenting to support the 3Ps of pain management for your teen with acute pain.
Read about hot packs and cold packs, and how they can effectively reduce pain from injuries.
Babies can feel pain. Learn about ways pain in newborns and babies can be assessed and techniques that can help ease pain.
Learn about psychological treatments used to treat pain, such as hypnosis, biofeedback, and imagery.
Learn about behavioural strategies such as biofeedback and CBT. These strategies can be used for effective pain management for children.
Learn about chronic pain in children and teens. Chronic pain is pain that lasts longer than three months and requires various pain management techniques.
Find out how to recognize the signs of chronic pain at home and how chronic pain is assessed in medical settings.
Learn about acute and chronic pain, including signs and symptoms, methods of assessment and the 3P approach to pain management.
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.
An overview of the components of a pain management plan for children.
Learn how the body experiences acute pain.
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 3P approach to pain management, which is a combination of psychological, physical and pharmacological (medications) strategies.
Find out how you can use the 3Ps of pain management to support your older child (age six to 12).
