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Gastric Emptying Scintigraphy (GES)
Gastric emptying scintigraphy (GES) is a special imaging test used to see how well your child’s stomach empties food into the small intestine.
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Sleep Tips for Adolescents
The following recommendations will help your adolescent get the best sleep possible.
Educational and Clinical Resources
Access educational behavioral health resources for your patients and clinical tools for your practice.
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Peroral Endoscopic Myotomy (POEM)
Peroral Endoscopic Myotomy (POEM) is a procedure used to treat children who have trouble eating, swallowing or keeping down food. It treats swallowing disorders caused by muscle spasms in the esophagus or when the muscles at the bottom of the esophagus do not relax when the child eats.
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New Guidelines for Nausea, Stomach Pain and Other Problems Help Physicians Better Diagnose, Treat Kids
A child feels nauseated all the time, but no medical test can find what is wrong. Or a child vomits regularly, but there’s no illness or eating disorder to explain it. These, and other stomach and bowel-related problems with no obvious causes, are called functional gastrointestinal disorders.
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Understanding Early Adolescence
Adolescence is broken into three stages: early, middle, and late adolescence. While these stages are common for all teens, each person experiences them in their own way.
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Menstrual Period Disorders
Menstrual periods can be very different for different people. What is “normal” for some may not be for others. Menstrual period disorders can mean your periods are not the same length or time each month or can mean your blood flow is heavier than usual.
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Treating Feeding and Eating Problems in Children with Occupational Therapy
Problems with development of these skills can also be hard to name in infants younger than 4-5 months old. Occupational therapists (OTs) can help with all of this!
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Rumination Syndrome
Rumination syndrome is a condition involving involuntary regurgitation of food.
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Dopamine and Serotonin: Our Own Happy Chemicals
Dopamine and serotonin are molecules that send signals throughout the body; these chemicals affect how we feel. Both chemicals act as hormones that help coordinate different functions and processes in our bodies like growth, metabolism, emotions and even sleep!