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Patient Education

• Addiction Recovery- Coping with Relapse

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• Addiction: Ask Yourself These Questions

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• Addiction: Getting Help

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• Addiction: Your Treatment Options

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• After Back Surgery: Going Home

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• After Back Surgery: More Tips for Daily Living

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• After Back Surgery: Tips for Daily Living

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• After Back Surgery: Your Hospital Recovery

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• After Hip Replacement: Managing Your Pain

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• After Knee Replacement: Managing Pain at Home

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• After Reverse Total Shoulder Replacement

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• Alcohol Addiction

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• Alcohol Withdrawal: What to Expect

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• Arm Care After a Stroke

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• Back Health After Surgery

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• Be Involved in Your Health Care: When You’re Having Surgery

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• Cancer in Children: Managing Pain

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• Cardiac Rehabilitation

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• Cardiac Rehabilitation: Emotional Issues

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• Cardiac Rehabilitation: Following an Exercise Program

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• Carotid Artery Problems: Stroke

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• Common Heart Medicines

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• Communicating About Pain

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• Complementary Care for Pain

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• Continuous Epidural Infusion for Pain Relief

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• Diabetes and Heart Disease

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• Discharge Instructions for Abdominal Surgery

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• Discharge Instructions for Stroke

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• Effects of a Stroke on the Brain and Body

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• For Caregivers: Preventing Another Stroke

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• For Caregivers: Regaining Movement After Stroke

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• For Caregivers: Self-Care After Stroke

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• For Caregivers: Swallowing Problems After Stroke

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• For Teens: Understand the Cycle of Addiction

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• Good Positioning After a Stroke

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• Having Parathyroid Surgery

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• Having Reverse Total Shoulder Replacement

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• Healthy Lifestyle to Prevent Another Stroke

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• Heart Failure: Evaluating Your Heart

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• Heart Failure: Making Changes to Your Diet

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• Helping Siblings Cope with Your Child's Surgery

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• Hemorrhagic Stroke: Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

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• Hospice: The Importance of Managing Pain

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• Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

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• Intimacy After Stroke

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• Intimacy and Heart Disease: Communication Tips

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• Intimacy and Heart Disease: Resuming Sexual Intimacy

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• Intimacy and Heart Disease: Talking with Your Partner

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• Intimacy and Heart Disease: Your Emotions

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• Making a Plan to Treat Pain with Opioids

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• Managing Chronic Pain

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• Managing Chronic Pain: Activity

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• Managing Chronic Pain: Medicines

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• Managing Chronic Pain: Therapies for Mind and Body

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• Managing Pain After Amputation Surgery

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• Managing Pain with Oral Medicines After Surgery

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• Managing Post-Op Pain at Home: Medicines

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• Managing Post-Op Pain at Home: Non-Medicine Relief

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• Managing Your Child’s Pain

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• Maximizing Surgical Safety

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• Measuring Your Pain

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• Medicine for Pain

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• Mood Swings and Depression After a Stroke

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• Open Kidney Exploration

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• Osteoarthritis Medicine

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• Osteoarthritis: Coping with Pain

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• Pain Medicines for Cancer

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• Pain Relief Methods for Temporomandibular Disorders (TMD)

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• Pericarditis

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• Preparing for Back Surgery

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• Preparing Your 0- to 12-Month-Old for Surgery

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• Preparing Your 1- to 2-Year-Old for Surgery

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• Preparing Your 13- to 18-Year-Old for Surgery

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• Preparing Your 3- to 5-Year-Old for Surgery

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• Preparing Your 6- to 12-Year-Old for Surgery

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• Preparing Your Home After Stroke

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• Preventing Recurrent Stroke: Eating Healthy

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• Preventing Recurrent Stroke: Getting Active

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• Recognizing the Signs of Substance Abuse in Teens

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• Recovering from Addiction

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• Recovering from Addiction: Continuing with Counseling

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• Reverse Total Shoulder Replacement

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• Risk Factors for Heart Disease

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• Risk Factors for Stroke

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• Signs of Addiction: Social Use

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• Spinal Cord Injury (SCI): Managing Pain

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• Spinal Cord Stimulation

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• Step-by-Step: Changing a Surgical Wound Dressing

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• Stroke and Heart Disease

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• Stroke: Resources and Support

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• Stroke: Self-Care

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• Stroke: Taking Medicines

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• Stroke: Tips for Swallowing

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• Substance Abuse and Traumatic Brain Injury

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• Surgery Coloring Sheet for Kids: Before Surgery

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• Surgery Coloring Sheet for Kids: Getting Ready at Home

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• Surgery Coloring Sheet for Kids: Going Home

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• Surgery Coloring Sheet for Kids: In the Operating Room

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• Surgery Coloring Sheet for Kids: People You See

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• Surgery Coloring Sheet for Kids: Waking Up

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• Symptoms of Stroke

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• Taking Medicines for Your Heart

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• The Cycle of Chronic Pain

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• The First Few Hours After a Stroke

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• Treating Drug Abuse and Addiction

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• Treating Inhalant Abuse

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• Understanding an Intrathecal Pain Pump Implant

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• Understanding Chronic Pain

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• Understanding Headache Pain

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• Understanding Inhalant Abuse

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• Understanding Opioid Medicines for Pain Management

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• Understanding Septal Myectomy

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• Understanding Thalamic Stroke

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• Understanding the Disease of Addiction

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• Understanding the Link Between High Blood Pressure and Stroke

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• Understanding the Pain Response

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• Understanding the Risks and Side Effects of Opioid Medicines

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• Using a PCA Pump

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• Using Blood Thinners (Anticoagulants)

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• Using Play to Help Your Child Cope with Surgery

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• What Is Hemorrhagic Stroke

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• What Is Ischemic Stroke?

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• When to Use the Emergency Room (ER)

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• When You Suspect Your Child Is Using Alcohol or Drugs

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• When Your Child Has “Growing Pains”

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• When Your Child Needs Emergency Surgery

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• When Your Child Needs Surgery: The Day of Surgery

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• When Your Child Needs Surgery: The Operating Room and Staff

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• When Your Child Needs Surgery: Words to Use with Your Child

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• Women and Heart Disease: Tips for Making Small Changes

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• Women and Heart Disease: Understanding the Risks

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• Women and Heart Disease: What Women Need to Know

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• Your Child's Medicine- Managing Pain After Surgery

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• Your Child's Preoperative Information

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• Your Child's Surgery: Working with Hospital Staff

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• Your Liver Transplant: The Procedure