Pain Management
- Pain Management Patient Guide: A Guide for Understanding and Managing Your Pain
A comprehensive tool for consumers, available in English (updated in October 2012) and Spanish (in the process of being revised for November 2012 release).
Sub-topics within the larger document:- Guide to Understanding and Managing Pain English >view
Tool that helps patients with pain prepare for visits with their providers. - Self-Help Options/Alternative/Complementary Medicine English | Spanish
A consumer guide that explains what the treatment is and when to use it. - Myths and Truths About Pain English | Spanish
A guide developed by consumers to explain the myths and truths about pain. - Pain Management Resources Outlines several community support groups and an extensive list of website links.
- Guide to Understanding and Managing Pain English >view
- GeriatricPain.org
The purpose of this Web resource is to share best practice tools and resources that support recommendations
for good pain assessment and management in older adults with nurses responsible for pain care in
older adults who reside in nursing homes.
- Pain Foundation
The Pain Foundation has a very well organized site that features extensive information on different types of pain.
- American Pain Society
This website discusses pain prevention and gives information about different options for pain relief.
- Healthwise
Healthwise is a Web site that provides interactive decision support tools and reliable medical facts that are available to help individuals make end of life care decisions.
- American Chronic Pain Association
- Pain.com
- Medem Medical Library: Pain Management
- American Medical Association
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