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Informationen zum Autor Elliot J. Krane, M.D., is the director of the multidisciplinary pediatric pain clinic at the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University. He lives in California. Deborah Mitchell is a medical writer and journalist whose articles have appeared in professional journals as well as national consumer magazines. She has authored or co-authored more than fifty books about various health topics, including The Natural Health Guide to Headache Relief , The Dictionary of Natural Healing, and What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Children's Vaccinations . She lives in Tucson, Arizona. Klappentext An essential survival guide for parents whose children suffer with persistent and often debilitating painApproximately ten million children are living with chronic pain. Most people would be surprised at such numbers, but for the parents of these children, the challenge of helping a pain-stricken child live a normal life is a frightening and frustrating reality. Chronic pain in children can manifest as abdominal, migraine, or facial pain. It also stems from a wide variety of disorders such as juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, cystic fibrosis, hemophilia, and childhood cancers. No matter what type of chronic pain the child suffers with, a parent must be armed with an understanding of how a child's expression and experience of pain differs from an adult's.Trained in pediatric anesthesia and intensive care at Boston Children's Hospital, Dr. Elliot Krane has devoted his entire professional life to refining and innovating techniques, strategies, and therapies to relieve the suffering of children with pain. In his book, "Relieve Your Child's Chronic Pain," parents will find the information and tools they need to get the very best care for their child. It will help you: Recognize, measure, and evaluate your child's pain properly Learn about the many alternative pain-management approaches that can be used at home Dispel fears about addiction if your child is prescribed a narcotic Find an appropriate pain-management clinic for your child Reduce the stress and anxiety in the home in a way that benefits the entire familyYou may not always be able to eliminate chronic pain entirely, but you can succeed in minimizing your child's suffering. Leseprobe Chapter One Understanding Your Child's Pain As a parent or grandparent, it is unimaginably difficult to watch a child suffer, to want to relieve the pain but not know where to turn or what approach to use. Your frustration and anger, anxiety and fear are understandable. Yet these very human emotions, which are displays of your love and concern, can get in the way of the very goal you wish to achieve: to relieve your child's pain and suffering. While health-care practitioners are usually successful at relieving acute pain -- a burst appendix, a broken arm, an abscessed tooth -- the same can't be said about chronic pain. If your child experiences chronic pain, you're probably feeling all the emotions we just mentioned. The good news is, you can channel those emotions into positive, effective actions that can help you help your child. That's what this book is about: showing you how you can encourage your child to live his or her life to the fullest, with as little pain and discomfort as possible. My decades of experience in working with children who live with chronic pain have shown me that even with the worst cases of childhood pain, we can still make a positive difference in the lives of these children and help make their childhood experience a more positive one. To make that difference, there are three main things you, as parents, need to do: understand the unique nature of childhood pain know where and how to get competent help for your child's pain have a comprehensive understanding of all the treatment options available to y...
