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| "It Only Hurts When I Take Depositions"
-- Certified Pain Practitioner Marilyn Oakes exposes the pain myths and the
deficiencies of doctors untrained in pain management |
| Need help finding good pain
treatment? The best list of pain clinics may be Pain Clinics. See also Links to Directories of American Pain
Clinics. Take advantage of the resources of the American Chronic Pain Association,
with 800 chapters worldwide. If you can't get the right doctor and need help NOW,
try these people |
| For back pain look at Lower Back
Pain, and A Patient's Guide
to Low Back Pain, and Chronic Pain after Spinal
Cord Injury and Back Pain -
New Surgical Techniques |
| Pain
Online Main Page the phenomenon of central pain |
| Mind's
Effects on Pain - in the Better Health site has many resources on specific kinds and
sources of pain, as well as information on coping and minimizing pain |
| In Pain- Public Information you find
questions you should ask about qualifications of your pain specialist, patients' bill of
rights, state listings, and other pain information. For pain after
surgery, look at Consumer Guidelines in the AHCPR
Guidelines. Consumer Pain
Information has many resources for pain patients |
| Medscape
has official Clinical
Guidelines published for competing therapies for the categories of back pain,
backache, nerve root pain, and more severe pathologies. If you need a password just go
back to Medscape home page and register for free. In Medscape see also Lumbar
Disc Surgery, AMA study --difficult medical terminology |
| IASP -- International Assoc. for
the Study of Pain also has a useful dictionary of pain terminology |
| See The Pain Page--Dedicated to sufferers of
chronic pain |
| The denial of chronic pain by
Robert W Teasell MD FRCPC from Pain Research
and Management |
| Chronic Pain, Questions and Answers |
| Managing Daily Life When Dealing with Chronic
Pain |
| Aches & Pains
& Natural Relief, Alternative treatments for when it hurts |
| For headache pain see Headaches Vascular and Migraine, Migraine - Doctor's Guide to the Internet,
& What's New at National Headache Foundation |
| Fibromyalgia
and Chronic Myofascial Pain Syndrome ( FMS MPS ) |
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| Many Americans With Chronic Pain Misdiagnosed
New York July 17, 1997 Doctor's Guide to Medical and Other News |
| See important insights in Pain Management Center site, where they
point out that much patient pain is inadequately treated, and that "unmanaged pain
can lead to profound adverse effects in patients' physiological, psychological and
immunological functions". You will want to subscribe to their mailing list (email) by
sending email to listserv@sjuvm.stjohns.edu
(just click on that underlined listserv address) and leave the Subject line blank, and in
the Message section type SUBSCRIBE PAIN-L (and your name) (example: SUBSCRIBE PAIN-L Jane
Doe). They will email instructions. This site is part of Wellness
Web - The Patient's Network with a very broad list of categories and online resources |
Coping with Chronic Pain. Pain
That Won't Go Away by the American Pharmaceutical Association
"Chronic pain takes a psychological toll" |
Pain is a blind guide in injury management
"Chronic Pain is a self-sustaining, self-reinforcing, and
self-regenerating process. It is not a symptom of an underlying acute somatic injury but
rather, a destructive illness in its own right. It is an illness of the whole person and
not a disease caused by the pathological state of an organ system. Chronic pain is
persistent, long-lived, and progressive. Pain perception is markedly enhanced. Pain
related behaviour becomes maladaptive and grossly disproportional to any underlying
noxious stimulus, which usually has healed and no longer serves as an underlying pain
generator..." |
| See Chronic Pain, CFS, and Fibromyalgia |
| Stop the Pain --AFL-CIO program |
| Resources for Pain Patients
online/offline pain organizations |
| GOOD paindoc |
| Pain- AMNews feature
Dec. 14 1998 |
| Pain clinic map |
| Look in http://www.goedhart.com/ and find mailing lists you
can subscribe to where ordinary (and medical ) people post their own messages about pain
and their experiences, ICQ and PowWow chats about pain, and chronic pain resources.
There's a newsgroup for chronic pain: news:alt.support.chronic-pain |
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| Mensana tools for
diagnosis |
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| Pain medicine
and doctors' fear of DEA |
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| Chronic
Pain Relief Coalition to support legislative reform of drug policies, and to enact a
national "Pain Patient's Bill of Rights." Currently, many patients do not have
access to FDA-approved pain medications, or controlled Schedule II opioid medications
needed to relieve severe, chronic and intractable pain. Most physicians are reluctant to
prescribe these medications for fear of disciplinary action by the DEA and state medical
boards. See their article: Commentary:
The Practice and Politics of Pain Treatment. A leading physician makes the
strongest appeal for aggressive pain medication in acute and chronic pain. The new
clinical practice guidelines on acute pain issued on March 5th, 1992 in a report by the
new federal Agency on Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR). The new guidelines are
aimed at relieving the unnecessary agony suffered by many patients after operations,
trauma, or painful medical procedures. |
| Compassion in Dying
seeks penalties for doctors who fail to control terminal suffering |
| Florida Guidelines for Management of Pain Using Dangerous
Drugs and Controlled Substances |
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| Treating Patients with Chronic Pain What
Can Medical Boards Do |
| JAMA
report, American Medical Assoc. "The statement by the American Academy of Pain
Medicine and the American Pain Society —which contains prescribing guidelines —
comes at a critical time. Many state legislatures, health departments, medical boards and
medical societies are revising policies on the issue in light of a growing body of
evidence that opioids may, in fact, be the treatment of choice for some chronic
conditions." |
| American Society for Action on Pain
(ASAP) is activist org for adequate pain treatment and drug policy reform. They link
to a comprehensive study of licit and illicit drug use by Consumer Reports
with surprising conclusions. ASAP offers many links dealing with the politics of
pain treatment, esp. The tragedy
of needless pain. Contrary to popular belief, the author says, morphine taken
solely to control pain is not addictive. Yet patients worldwide continue to be
undertreated and to suffer unnecessary agony. See ASAP's March Against Pain. |
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