In the Face of Pain -This site provides information about the cost of unmanaged pain to our society.
Professional Education:Curriculum and Continuing Education
PainEDU.org: Improving chronic pain management through treatment and education.
High Stakes, Young Lives: Prescription Medications in Our Communities - Clinicians are often unaware of the ultimate fate of the medications they prescribe, and may unwittingly fuel diversion and abuse. Legitimate access to controlled substances is necessary for the health of patients in need of such treatment, but clinicians have a responsibility to minimize the potential for abuse and diversion.
The Population-based Palliative Care Research Network - The POPCRN is committed to enhancing the care of persons at the end of life and their families through the conduct and dissemination of high-quality research in palliative care settings.
American Society of Pain Educators - As the only organization focusing on pain educator training, the Society teaches healthcare professionals to serve as resources to educate their clinical peers, as well as patients, families, and caregivers, on ways to relieve pain by the safest means possible.
New Online Course Available from Pain & Policies Studies Group - The University of Wisconsin Pain & Policy Studies Group (PPSG) recently launched a new on-line course, Increasing Patient Access to Pain Medicines around the World - Improving National Policies that Govern Drug Distribution. The self-paced course, available at no charge, addresses the relationship between government policies that affect the medical availability of opioid analgesics and patients who experience moderate to severe pain. For more information, please follow the link above.
IASP - Global Year Against Cancer Pain - This site contains 21 Fact Sheets about various cancer topics. Many of the Fact Sheets are available in several languages.
Medical Acupuncturists - Use this site to search for a physician specializing in acupuncture. For Michigan licensees, please be sure to verify their license at Verify a License. For licensees in states other than Michigan, you should contact the licensing authority in that particular state.
Let's Talk Pain - Let's Talk Pain is a Coalition of organizations, including leading advocacy groups, focused on increasing awareness and improving understanding of pain management. The Coalition is the first coalition of its kind to bring together organizations representing a diverse array of perspectives by those affected by pain: patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals.
Partners Against Pain - Professional Pain Assessment Tools: Pain Management Kit; Opioid Documentation Kit; 18 Multilanguage Pain Assessment Scales; Wong-Baker Pain FACES Rating scale; Descriptive, Numeric, Analog Pain Rating Scales; WHO Pain Ladder; Pain-Related Quality of Life Instrumentation; JCAHO Standards to Assess and Manage Pain; Implementation Guide; Patient Comfort Assessment Guide
National Pain Foundation- An on-line educational and support community for persons in pain, their families and physicians. Your source for treatment options and pain information that is peer reviewed by leading pain specialists.
American Pain Society - The American Pain Society is a multidisciplinary community that brings together a diverse group of scientists, clinicians and other professionals to increase the knowledge of pain and transform public policy and clinical practice to reduce pain-related suffering.
Wayne State University, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences- WSU's research group studying the associations between marital functioning, physical health, and mental health. Their work cuts across various disciplines including clinical psychology, behavioral medicine, and close relationships research. They are particularly interested in how couples communicate about and manage chronic pain problems like osteoarthritis and back pain.
National Institutes of Health - The NIH Pain Consortium was established to enhance pain research and promote collaboration among researchers across the many NIH Institutes and Centers that have programs and activities addressing pain.
Pain Topics - This site is a noncommercial resource for healthcare professionals, providing open access to clinical news, information, research, and education for a better understanding of evidenced-based pain management practices.
American Chronic Pain Association - To raise awareness among the health care community, policy makers, and the public at large about issues of living with chronic pain.
American Pain Foundation - Our mission is to improve the quality of life of people with pain by raising public awareness, providing practical information, promoting research, and advocating to remove barriers and increase access to effective pain management.
American Academy of Pain Medicine - The American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) is the medical specialty society representing physicians practicing in the field of Pain Medicine. As a medical specialty society, the Academy is involved in education, training, advocacy, and research in the specialty of Pain Medicine.
Emerging Solutions in Pain - ESP is a nonbranded, educational initiative dedicated to developing tools, information and resources that support improved therapeutic outcomes for chronic pain patients by minimizing the risk of opioid misuse, abuse and addiction.
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