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Face Pain Bookmarks
R.A. "Red" Lawhern, Ph.D.
Content Undergoing Update in June 2010
This bookmark file has been compiled during a period of almost 15 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 try to update the list every few months, but sometimes fail in my diligence for simple lack of time.
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 or someone who is routinely close to you and in a position to lend support, 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 regrettably and in some few cases) inclined to. And you must develop a tolerance for uncertainty, because there is still a lot of that commodity circulating at the most fundamental levels of research on pain. There is a great deal yet to learn, and frequently there is reason for reservations concerning much of what the medical profession thinks it "knows" on the subject.
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 Such resources are constantly growing, adding new links or dropping outdated links.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 may 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 - U.S. News and World Report
- British Medical Journal: [Search Window upper right]
- InteliHealth Search - MS
- PubMed Entry Port
- PubMed Search - Author Format
- Medscape Neurology Home Page
- NHS Health Information Resources - formerly National Electronic Library for Health - UK
- Neurogate -- Gateway to Medical Research - Very large compilatoin of medical research sites
- Neurology Linx -- News in Neurology for Doctors from Current Medical Journals
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.
- Chronic Illness Forum powered by CompuServe.
- Doctors' Guide Global Edition
- Dr. Peter J. Jannetta -- WPAHS
- Face Pain Overview - By Richard A. Lawhern
- Find A Doctor - Neurology or Other Identifies several "find a doctor" searchable resource sites.
- HealthLinks.net, an online Healthcare Information Portal --
Directory and guide to reliable Information on the Internet for healthcare professionals [Search on Trigeminal Neuralgia] - Health.com: Chronic Pain
- NIH Pain Consortium
- National Institutes for Neurological Disorder and Stroke (NINDS) Trigeminal Neuralgia Information
- Other Headaches and Facial Pains, Chapter Outline, B.Todd Troost, M.D.
- Pain Links - University of Washington
Pain Medicine & Palliative Care [Beth Israel Medical Center] - SpineHealth.com -- Peer reviewed resources for chronic back pain
TN Treatment - Surgery
- Clarian Health - Indiana Lions Gamma Knife Center - Trigeminal Neuralgia
- Conference Report - Highlights from the AANS 2010 [Free Login Required]
- Functional radiosurgery and trigeminal neurelgia: Results, Expectations
- Programs of Excellence - Allegheny General Hospital
- Skull Base Institute - Surgical Programs and Information
- The following information was last updated June 2005. Please bear with me as I continue working through it
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 [British Medical Journal] Johnson and Dworkin 326 (7392): 748
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