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Pain Resources
General Pain Resources
The Comfort Ability - Apps & Resources
A collection of apps and websites focused on pediatric pain education and symptom management, offering tools for relaxation, tracking, and coping skills across various types of pain (including headache). We particularly recommend the Comfortability list of Relaxation/Meditation applications.
Meg Foundation
A research-backed nonprofit offering reliable pain information and resources for all ages, including evidence-based guidance on procedural, acute, and chronic pain (including headaches).
General Pain: Book Recommendations
Book for Teens
The Chronic Pain and Illness Workbook for Teens
By: Rachel Zoffness, PhD
With this powerful and easy-to-use workbook, you’ll learn how pain affects both your mind and body, how negative emotions can make pain worse, and strategies to help you turn the volume down on your pain, so you can go back to enjoying activities that you love. You’ll also learn mindfulness and relaxation exercises, including belly breathing and body scan to help manage pain in the moment.
Book for Caregivers
Managing Your Child's Chronic Pain
By: Tonya Palermo, PhD, & Emily Law, PhD
For parents who wish to learn how to help their children and families cope with persisting pain using cutting-edge, scientifically proven treatment tools and techniques. The strategies in this book provide parents with practical instructions for pain management that will enable children to return to school, participate in sports and other activities, and pursue active social lives. This book will empower parents to take a hands-on approach to relieving their child's pain.
Book for Children
Be the Boss of Your Pain
By Timothy Culbert, MD & Rebecca Kajander, CPNP, MPH
(Be the Boss of Your Body ®)
Be the Boss of Your Pain speaks to kids ages 8 and up with this message: Your body, mind, and spirit—working together—have amazing abilities to help you control how your body feels, even when you have pain. When you have pain, you often start feeling bad in other ways, too. You might have low energy, get poor sleep, or have no appetite. You might get in a lousy mood or be bored and worried. You might even feel disconnected or hopeless. When you start to have these problems, being the boss of your body can help.
Book for Parents
When Your Child Hurts
By Rachel Coakley, PhD
Dr. Rachael Coakley, a clinical pediatric psychologist who works exclusively with families of children with chronic or recurrent pain, provides a set of research-proven strategies—some surprisingly counter-intuitive—to achieve positive results quickly and lastingly. Whether the pain is disease-related, the result of an injury or surgery, or caused by another condition or syndrome, this book offers what every parent of a child in pain most needs: effective methods for reversing the cycle of chronic pain.
Caregiver Resources
Caregiver Wellbeing
Links to practical information, self-care tips, and supportive tools designed to promote emotional and mental health for the parents of children with medical conditions.