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How Much Sleep Do Children Need?

While up to 15 hours is ideal, most infants up to 11 months old get only about 12 hours of sleep. Babies typically have three naps and drop to two ...

Potty Training: When to Start

When your toddler throws a ball or fits a round peg into a hole, they're not just playing around. You're more than ready for your toddler to start ...

Mistakes Parents Make with Preschoolers

Your child probably wants to know why last time Mommy let them play on the playground for 10 minutes when school got out but this time wants them t...

Parents, Kids, and Discipline

Your responsibility as a parent is to help your child become self-reliant, respectful, and self-controlled. An authoritative parent has clear expec...

Do I Have Chronic Pain?

Just about everyone feels pain from time to time. When you hurt yourself, the injury turns on pain sensors in that area. Both a lack of sleep and m...

Pain Types and Classifications

Chronic pain can be the result of damaged tissue, but very often is attributable to nerve damage. Pain is most often classified by the kind of dama...

Symptoms & Causes

Learn the most common causes of low back pain, symptoms that may require urgent care, and more. While it may begin with an injury or illness, pain ...

Types of Pain

Learn common causes of abdominal pain and when to contact your doctor. Learn about how chronic pain occurs, and why chronic pain sometimes lingers....

Living & Managing

These need to be addressed along with the physical causes of pain. Chronic pain can cause some sexual problems.

Pain Management and Nerve Blocks

Nerve blocks are used for pain treatment and management. Although many kinds of nerve blocks exist, this treatment cannot always be used.

Opioid (Narcotic) Pain Medications

And your doctor may prescribe opioids to be taken 'as needed' in case you have 'breakthrough' pain -- a flare of pain that you get despite round-th...

Hip Pain: Causes and Treatment

Arthritis leads to inflammation of the hip joint and the breakdown of the cartilage that cushions your hip bones. Whenever you use the hip (for exa...