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Search our collection of print books, eBooks, CDs and DVDs, games, and teaching tools on health topics.
Search our collection of print books, eBooks, CDs and DVDs, games, and teaching tools on health topics.
We know that practicing mindfulness in everyday life can help us reduce stress and cultivate deep, embodied well-being, but what about its effects on physical and emotional pain, especially when it seems overwhelming or unrelenting? Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief is a soothing program with …
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In a culture that values speed, efficiency, image, and busyness, some of us are aching for another way to live: more intentional, more connected. Simpler, slower, richer. Many of us have believed the myth that achievement and success bring us contentment, only to find it?s actually things like conn…
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Pamphlet describing how to use a birthing ball safely during pregnancy. It also provides information on how to use the birthing ball after the baby is born - for both you and your baby, and how to keep the ball in good repair.
This pamphlet provides information about nipple shields, a nipple-shaped covering worn over the nipple during breastfeeding to help a baby feed.
Learn how to clean your child's skin with chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) wipes.
Regardless of whether your chronic pain includes endometriosis, IC, or IBS, or a combination of all of these, following an anti-inflammatory diet can help to reduce the intensity of the pain you are experiencing. It is also essential to include lifestyle changes, such as increased activity and exer…
A continuous nerve block pump gives your child a steady dose of pain medicine after their surgery. Learn how to care for your child with a nerve block, how to take care of the pump, how to remove the catheter, and when to get help.
Information for families with children in a hip spica body cast. Includes: cast care, skin care, day-to-day care, as well as other resources and hints.
A pamphlet that explains how to deal with some common problems that people experience with catheters.
Free family content from Calm.com. This page features sleep stories and meditations. You do not need to download the Calm app or create an account. You can play these from your Internet browser.
Learn about how you can manage your pain during early labour, and active labour. This handout explains the benefits and limitations of comfort measures, like touch and position. It also details benefits, risks and potential side effects of medical pain relief measures, like epidurals.
Provides information to help your child to walk using crutches on flat surfaces and up and down stairs.
Provides information to help parents make a choice about using Sucrose to manage infant pain.
Learn when and how to use numbing cream (EMLA, AMETOP, and other topical anesthetics).
This handout is for people that have scoliosis and plan to give birth at BC Women's Hospital. It includes information on pain relief options during labour, for vaginal and cesarean section births.
Provides information to help your child to walk using crutches on flat surfaces and up and down stairs.
Learn how to use a needle and syringe.
BC Children's Hospital is committed to promoting comfort at every clinical encounter.; The Comfort PACT is a protocol that includes five key pillars to promote comfort and reduce pain whenever possible. The pillars are; preparation, communication, comfort positions, alternate focus, and medication.…