Your doctor prescribed a continuous passive motion (CPM) machine to use after surgery. Read on to learn about using it at home.

Your doctor prescribed a cold water therapy device. This device helps reduce pain and swelling and aids recovery. Here's what you need to know about home care.

Using a cane can help you with balance as you regain strength and mobility after surgery, illness, or injury. Many different kinds of canes are available. Read on to learn more.

Your child will be going home with an Unna boot in place. An Unna boot is a dressing and wrap combination that's applied from the foot to the knee. Here's what you need to know about home care.

An Unna boot is a dressing and wrap combination that's applied from your foot to your knee. An Unna boot has a special medicine in the gauze that will help heal burns or skin sores and protect new skin. Here's what you need to know about home care.

Using oxygen doesn't mean you can't travel. You just need to plan ahead. Read on for helpful tips to get you started.

A Transcyte dressing covers a second- or third-degree burn. Read on to learn how to care for this type of dressing.

You have had surgery to create an opening through your neck and into your trachea (windpipe). A tube (cannula) was inserted into the opening so you can breathe. You need to take care of your tracheostomy ("trach") tube, the opening in your neck (stoma), and the skin around the stoma once you leave the hospital. Your care team will teach you how to do this. The guidelines below will also help.

Learn how to take your child's temperature under the arm. This is called the axillary temperature.

You take a rectal temperature by placing a thermometer in your baby’s bottom. This method is more accurate than most other methods. But use it only when directed by your baby’s doctor. Use the steps on this sheet as a guide.