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- Hopkins Researchers Uncover Basics of Perplexing Pain Syndromes (Printer-friendly version of entire document)
- Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
A team of neuroscientists at Johns Hopkins offers the first concrete evidence of what's behind some of the most incapacitating pain syndromes people can suffer, a move suggesting immediate strategies for treatment.
- Issues in Defining Pain (Printer-friendly version of entire document)
- C. Richard Chapman, PhD
This article highlights the need to consider the emotional components related to pain. Brief and well written, it recommends treating the whole person rather than the presenting symptom.
- We thank C. Richard Chapman, PhD. Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Washington at Seattle, WA for permission to share this material and invite our viewers to visit his website for futher information.
Perspectives in Intractable Pain Management: An analysis of current divering viewpoints (Printer-friendly version of entire document)
- Kristin Bundy
For the National Foundation for the Treatment of Pain
An excellent analysis of the views surrounding the proper management of intractable pain.
- "Primer" For Primary Care Physicians (OFF-SITE)
- Alexander Lifson, M.D., for the Institute for Low Back and Neck Care
Better ways of dealing with patients themselves dealing with chronic back pain.
- Treatment of Nonmalignant Chronic Pain (OFF-SITE)
- Dawn A. Marcus, MD, for the American Academy of Family Physicians
Details on how best to care for patients suffering from diseases and disorders that cause chronic pain.
- Use of opioid analgesics for the treatment of chronic noncancer pain (OFF-SITE)
- Canadian Pain Society
- This is the consensus statement and guidelines from the Canadian Pain Society task force.
- Our sincere thanks to Donna E Kennedy for permission to post this excellent paper to our visitors.
- Chronic Pain. A New Disease (OFF-SITE)
- By Daniel Brookoff M.D.
Chronic pain is a potentially fatal disease and is the most common cause of long term disability. Although effective medical therapy is available, chronic pain is commonly viewed as a physical illness not worthy of treatment. Recent studies provide the rationale for a more aggressive and comprehensive approach to chronic pain syndrome. This is an excellent article for both physicians and patients describing chronic neuropathic inflammation and pain and their treatment. It includes excellent illustrations or normal and abnormal pathways of pain.
- Our thanks
to Lee Powers for permission to link to this article.
