Useful Links for Pain Professionals

The following are either information-rich sites concerned with pain and its control or home pages of organizations, pain researchers or pain clinicians. Individual pain clinics and sites for products that relieve pain do not appear here unless they are information resources.

DISCLAIMER: My listing a link below does not imply that I, the University of Utah, or the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center endorse it, its mission, or the person or organization behind it. These links are here for informational purposes only.

General Pain Resources

Anesthesia and Pain History Resources on the Internet

Acute and Post-operative Pain Management for Children

Back Pain in Children (Iowa)

Bandolier: List of Systematic Reviews on Pain Topics

Cancer Pain Education Resource

Cherny's Downloadable Palliative Care and Cancer Pain Database

Mayday Pain Resource Center

The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis

OncoPain: A Cancer Pain Discussion Group

Oxford Pain Internet Site - A Collection of Clinical Reviews on Pain (Oxford University, UK)

Pain Management Resource Guide (Massachusetts)

Pediatric Pain: Science Helping Children

PostOperative Pain Management (Virtual Anaesthesia Textbook

IPRO: Post-Operative Pain Management

Post-Polio Syndrome

Talaria: A Cancer Pain Resource

Chronic Pain in America: Roadblocks to Relief - a Roper - Starch Survey

Chronic Pain Rehabilitation Program - Tampa, Florida VA

Professional Pain Organizations and Groups

AAPM: American Academy of Pain Management

AAPM: American Academy of Pain Medicine

American Academy of Neurology: Chronic Pain

American NeuroModulation Society

ACHE: American Council for Headache Education

APS: American Pain Society

Anterior Knee Pain Project

ASAP: American Society for Action on Pain

ASPRRE: American Society for Pain Relief, Research, Education

Association internationale Ensemble contre la douleur

Australian Pain Society

The Canadian Pain Mechanisms, Diagnosis and Management Consortium

CPS: Canadian Pain Society

Central Mechanisms of Pain Research Group (University of Sydney)

Cochrane Review Group on Pain, Palliative Care, and Supportive Care

Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center Pain Service

Cynergy Group (DuPen)

EuroPain (promoting collaborative pain research in Europe)

Freedom from Headaches (Biofeedback)

IASP: International Association for the Study of Pain

IPPS: International Pelvic Pain Society

ISTOP: Institute for the Study and Treatment of Pain

ISIS: International Spinal Injection Society

Law, Medicine and Ethics - Research on Pain

The Johns Hopkins Chronic Pain Treatment Program

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Pain Control Program

The MGH Pain Center

National Forum of Independent Pain Clinicians

New York University Pain Management Center

Pain Research - Institute of Psychology, Aarhus University

Pain Management Online

Pain and Policy Studies Group

Pain Research Group (MD Anderson Cancer Center)

Pain Research at Oxford (UK)

Touch and Pain Research (Apkarian)

Pain Relief Foundation (UK)

Quantitative Sensory and Autonomic Nervous System Testing Laboratories (Neuropathic Pain)

Texas Pain Society

Texas Pain Rehabilitation Institute

The Tochigi Prefectural Society of Pain Clinicians (in Japanese)

Trigger Points for Dentists

University of Utah Pain Management Center

University of Toronto Pain Research Group

The UCLA History of Pain Collection

WHO Cancer Pain Release Initiative

World Cervicogenic Headache Society

World Institute of Pain

State Cancer Pain Initiative Sites

American Alliance of Cancer Pain Initiatives

Resource Center of the American Alliance of Cancer Pain Initiatives

Colorado Cancer Pain Initiative

Kansas Cancer Pain Initiative

New Hampshire Cancer Pain Initiative

Ohio Cancer Pain Initiative

Vermont Cancer Pain Initiative

WACPI: Washington-Alaska Cancer Pain Initiative

WCPI: Wisconsin State Cancer Pain Initiative

WVCPI: West Virginia Cancer Pain Initiative

Related Organizations

American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine

American Psychological Association

American Psychosomatic Society

American Society of Regional Anesthesia

Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Arthritis Foundation

ASCO: American Society of Clinical Oncology

Drug Information Association

Drug Reform Coordination Network - Drug Policy Library

Oncology Nursing Society

Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society

Society for Neuroscience

Society for the Study of Neuronal Regulation (biofeedback)

Society for Psychophysiological Research

AHCPR Clinical Practice Guidelines

Spine and Peripheral Nerve Surgery at Harvard MGH

Spondylitis Association of America

Clinical Guidelines

Talaria: A Cancer Pain Resource

National Guidelines Clearing House (an interactive site featuring access to more than 700 clinical practice guidelines)

Pain Measurement Resources

Assessment Tools Used in the Edmonton Palliative Care Program

Brief Pain Inventory (Short Form)

Initial Pain Assessment Tool

Pain Distress Scales

Memorial Pain Assessment Card

Symptom Checklist-90-RevisedTM (SCL-90-RÆ)

Quantitative Sensory and Autonomic Nervous System Testing Laboratories

Pain Journals

The Journal of Pain

Pain Research and Management

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain

Journal of Musculoskeletal Pain

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Journal of Pharmaceutical Care in Pain and Symptom Control (follow journals link)

The Pain Clinic

The Clinical Journal of Pain

The European Journal of Pain

The Pediatric Pain Letter

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Topics in Pain Management

Pain Research and Management

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

South African Journal of Anaesthesiology and Analgesia

Seminars in Anesthesia Perioperative Medicine and Pain

Electronic Pain Journals

Medical Science Bulletin: Analgesic and Anesthetic Drug Reviews

Related Journals

Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

Psychophysiology

Home Pages of Pain Researchers and Clinicians

A. Vania Apkarian - Cortical Representation of Pain

Hugh Allen - Palm Pilots in Pain Management

Lars Arendt-Nielsen - Muscle Pain and Motor Control

Murat Aydede - Bibliography of Philosophical Pain Literature

D.A. Bakal - Headache, Chronic Pain

Gary J. Bennett - Neuropathic Pain

Dee Burrows - Nursing Research Page

Nigel Bush - Quality of Life and Cancer Related Pain

Dan Cherkin - Epidemiology of Pain and Pain Interventions

Eric Chudler - CNS Mechanisms

Robert Coghill - Brain Imagery

David Cundiff - Cancer Pain and Terminal Illness

T.J. Coderre - Neural Mechanisms and Neuronal Plasticity

Raymond Dionne NIH-NIDR Clinical Pharmacology Studies

A.W. Duggan - Neuropeptides and the Suppression of Pain

Gary Duncan - Pain and the CNS

Andrew Elizaga: Illustrated Regional Anesthestics and Pain

Howard Fields - Neural Circuitry Underlying Pain Modulation

G. Allen Finley - Pediatric Pain

Richard H. Gracely - Pain Measurement

Donna Hammond - Neuropharmacology

Dan R. Kenshalo, Jr NIH-NIDR Behavioral & Neuronal Correlates

Arthur Lipman - Pharmacy

Joseph LeDoux - Emotion and Pain

Horace Loh - Neuropharmacology

Steven Maier - Learned Helplessness, Psychoneuroimmunology

Patrick McGrath - Pediatric Pain

Vjekoslav Miletic - Neural Circuitry of Nociception

John D. Loeser - Chronic Pain

Wolfgang Miltner - Cortical Representations of Pain

Gayle Page - Immune Function, Perioperative Pain

Jose Ochoa - Pathophysiology of Pain

Richard Patt: MD Anderson Anesthesiology and Critical Care

Richard Payne: MD Anderson Pain and Symptom Management

Frank Porreca: Opioid Mechanisms, Neuroplasticity

Edward Perl - Specificity in Neural Processing

Don Ramsey - What is Pain?

William J. Roberts - Mechanisms of Chronic Pain

Gary B. Rollman - Pain Measurement and Control

Ehrenfried Schindler - Anesthesia and Pain Resources on the Internet

Michael Von Korff - Epidemiology of Chronic Pain, Health Services

Linda R. Watkins - Pain Modulation Systems

Lukas Radbruch: Pain Clinic, University of Cologne

Tony Yaksh - Neuropharmacology

Robert Zachariae - Experimental Pain Research

Commercial Links

Human Research Instrumentation

Astro-Med, Inc (Grass Instruments)

Beckman Instruments, Inc

IITC, Inc Electronic Von Frey Anesthesiometer

Kodak Health Imaging

Neurological Evaluation Instrumentation

Medoc Ltd. - Quantitative Sensory Testing Devices

Neurotron, Incorporated

The Pharmaceutical Industry

Abbott Laboratories

Baxter Health Care products

Boehringer Mannheim

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Eli Lilly & Company Pharmaceuticals

Glaxo-Wellcome Pharmacology Guide

Hoechst - Division Pharmaceuticals

Merck (includes Merck Manual)

Purdue Frederick - Partners Against Pain

Roche Pharmaceuticals

Roxanne Pain Institute (slides, other excellent pain resources)

Searle HealthNet

Zeneca Pharmaceuticals

Implantable Pumps

Sims Deltec (Port-a-Cath implantable access systems for pain management)

Medtronic, Inc (implantable drug delivery systems)

Hypnosis and Hypnosis Training

Hypnosis.Com: Accelerated Human Change Technologies

Hypnoweb (hypnosis home training courses)

The Orca Institute - Hypnotherapy training courses

American Institute of Hypnotherapy

American Board of Hypnotherapy

National Guild of Hypnotists

The Milton H. Erickson Foundation

The Alchemy Institute of the Healing Arts

Other

Aprex -- Medication Compliance (outstanding technology and bibliography)

Digital Medical Systems, Inc

Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc

Kaiser Permanente Southern California

Masters Medical Pty Ltd (Australia)

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