Bookmarks on Chronic Pain
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Face Pain Bookmarks
R.A. "Red" Lawhern, Ph.D.
Last Updated July 2005
This bookmark file has been compiled during a period of almost
ten years of
personal part-time research on behalf of face pain patients, their families, and
medical professionals who treat chronic face pain. Some of the links have
been sent along by others working in the field, and some I have found on my
own. I update the list every few months.
Please understand that this is not an exhaustive list, or
even necessarily
the "best" list, though I do my best to cull out any obvious
stinkers. These are starting points that might possibly shorten your
learning curve. And make no mistake -- if you hope to be treated
effectively, you simply must engage actively in research that allows you
to climb that learning curve on your own behalf. You must learn about this
field of knowledge more intimately than many doctors are able to or (in some
cases, regrettably) inclined to. And you must develop a tolerance for
uncertainty, because there is still a lot of that at the most fundamental levels
of research on pain.
Searchable Databases
- Possibly the most valuable resources you can use
on your own
behalf are those we call "living documents" or
more appropriately "living data stores". Such
resources are constantly growing, adding new links or dropping
outdated links. These are places you should return to
periodically to see what's been added. A few will
require that you "join" or "register" but
the basic services of all of them are free. These have
been stacked in alphabetical order, not precedence.
- About.Com -Health & Fitness
- Allhealthnet.com - Your Comprehensive Medical Search Engine
- Best Hospitals - Alphabetical Listing: Health - News You Can Use - U.S. News Online
- bmj.com Collected Resources: Other Neurology
- bmj.com Collected Resources : World Wide Web
- bmj.com -Search & Browse All Issues
- Find a Doctor - Neurology
- InteliHealth Search - MS
- PubMed Entry Port
- PubMed Search - Author Format
- Medscape Neurology Home Page
- National
Electronic Library for Health
- UK
- Neurogate -- Gateway to Medical Research
- Neurology
Linx -- News in Neurology for Doctors from Current Medical
Journals
- 100 Top Hospitals
-
Chronic Pain Resources
Many professionals
and some deeply knowledgeable amateurs write widely on the World Wide
Web, or in source articles referenced on the Web. The following
are articles and other resources I've found over time, and believe to be informative,
thoughtful, and balanced in their treatment of pain
issues. Some are collections of filtered
resources.
- Advanced Pain Treatment Centers - Homepage
- Atypical Facial Pain
- Chronic Illness Forum powered by CompuServe.
- Chronic Pain - Doctors' Guide
- Dr. Peter J. Jannetta -- WPAHS
- Face Pain Overview - By Richard A. Lawhern
- Free Health & Medical Care Research Site
- HealthLinks.net, an online Healthcare Information Portal --
Directory and guide to reliable Information on the Internet for healthcare professionals
- Google Web Directory - Health > Consumer Support Groups > Chronic Pain
- Managing Nonmalignant Pain: Challenges for Clinicians
- Mental Health Net - Pain Resources
- NIH Consensus Statements: 55. The Integrated Approach to the Management of Pain
- Other Headaches and Facial Pains, Chapter Outline, B.Todd Troost,
M.D.
- Pain Links
- University of Washington
- Search Physician Directory
SpineHealth.com --
Peer reviewed resources for chronic back pain
- Pain Medicine & Palliative Care
- Find A Doctor - Neurology Resources
TN Treatment - Surgery
- Clarian Health - Indiana Lions Gamma Knife Center - Trigeminal Neuralgia
- Conference Report - Highlights from the AANS 2001
- Functional radiosurgery and trigeminal neurelgia: Results, Expectations
- Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for Trigeminal Neuralgia: Results and Expectations
- Programs of Excellence - Allegheny General Hospital
- Skull Base Institute - Press Release
TN Research Articles
- Articles in Press
- BJA -- Nurmikko and Eldridge 87 (1): 117
- Cranial Nerve Disorders References at Pitt U
- Cranial Nerves
- Cranial Nerve V - Trigeminal Nerve
- Cranial Nerve IX - The Glossopharyngeal
- Depression in Medical Illness
- Fibromyalgia vs Depression
- Glossopharyngeal Neuralgia is similar to Trigeminal Neuralgia but is much less common
- Hospital Practice: Neuropathic Pain
- Introduction to Advances in the Neurosurgical Treatment of Intractable Pain
- MDExpress: Medical research and news portal created by doctors
- Neurology Treatment Updates - Migraine, Cluster, Trigeminal Neuralgia, and Mood Disorders
- THE MERCK MANUAL, Sec. 14, Neurologic Disorders
- THE MERCK MANUAL, Sec. 14, Ch. 167, Pain
- McGill Pain Questionnaire
- Oral Health Journal, May 2001
- Pain beyond words: Psychologists struggle to apply the right label to our often indescribable hurt
- Painful Neuralgia Is Still Not Widely Understood
- Patients Warned of Dangers of Chinese Medicine (BMJ)
- Ramsay Hunt Syndrome from Neurology / Neurological Infections
- Treating Neurologic Pain - Abstract
- TRIG
- Trigeminal Neuralgia Clinical Resources
- Trigeminal Neuralgia: New Treatment Options for a Well-known Cause of Facial Pain
- News - Episodic Cluster Headaches May Be Curbed By Civamide
TN Treatment - Drugs
The first group of
resources is searchable and specialized to prescription drugs.
The second group, below the line, are specific to particular drug
treatments and issues.
- Drug Guides -- On Line List
- DrugScope - Home
- Search DRUGS - Medscape
- Search Sites for Specific Drug Details - Directory
- Magellan Health: Drugs
- RxList - The Internet Drug Index - RxList.com, Inc.
- Search DRUGS
- Welcome to RxMed
- Adjunctive Agents in the Management of Chronic Pain
- An Improving Outlook For Patients With Postherpetic Neuralgia
- Chronic Pain: Treatment Barriers and Strategies for Clinical Practice
- Cluster Headache Patients in Community Experience Long Delay Before Diagnosis
- Complimentary Medicine - bmj.com Vickers 321 (7262): 683
- MEDLINE Abstracts - Treatment of Neuropathic Pain Using Topical Agents
- Neurontin (Gabapentin) For Intractable Pain In Multiple Sclerosis
- Neurology Treatment Updates - Migraine, Cluster, Trigeminal Neuralgia, and Mood Disorders
- News - Episodic Cluster Headaches May Be Curbed By Civamide
- Pharmacologic Management of Acute and Chronic Pain
- Synergy : Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain 41 (4), 369-376
- Tough-to-Treat Myofascial Pain Responds to Botulinium Toxin Type A
- Treatment of Chronic Pain With Antiepileptic Drugs: A New Era
- Treatment of Cluster Headache and Chronic Paroxysmal Hemicrania
- Treatment of Herpes Zoster And Postherpetic Neuralgia
- Use of Opioids to Treat Chronic Nonmalignant Pain Varies Widely
- bmj.com Johnson and Dworkin 326 (7392): 748
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