Organizations
Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life - Angelina Jolie
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100 million Americans have chronic pain. Very few use one of the best tools to treat it
What started off as light throbbing in one wrist 10 years ago quickly engulfed the other. The discomfort then spread, producing a pain much “like slapping your hands against a concrete wall,” he says. He was constantly stretching them, constantly shaking them, while looking for hot or cold surfaces to lay them on for relief.
But worse was the deep sense of catastrophe that accompanied the pain. Working in tech-related startups, he depended on his hands to type. “Every time the pain got bad, I would think some variation of, ‘Oh no, I’m never going to be able to use computers again; I’m not going to be able to hold down a job; I’m not going to be able to earn a living; and I’m going…
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The opioid crisis changed how doctors think about pain
But there’s more to the crisis story than corporate pill dumping. Understanding how opioids became so ubiquitous in America requires understanding a fundamental shift that happened 30 years ago in how doctors thought about pain itself.
What the US can learn from other countries in dealing with pain and the opioid crisis
For me, the issue goes beyond the simplistic characterizations of pain management often seen in different countries and cultures. Pain isn’t just to be cured – or to be endured. Rather, all Americans, whether providing or receiving care, need to understand what can be learned from best practices in pain management around the world.
100 million Americans have chronic pain. Very few use one of the best tools to treat it
Chronic pain often has no physical cause. Psychotherapy can reduce the suffering.
Institute for the Study and Treatment of Pain
The Institute for the Study and Treatment of Pain is a non-profit organization dedicated to research, treatment, training, and education in chronic pain.
International Association for the Study of Pain
The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) is the leading professional forum for science, practice, and education in the field of pain. Membership in IASP is open to all professionals involved in research, diagnosis or treatment of pain. IASP has more than 8,000 members in 129 countries, 87 national chapters, and 19 Special Interest Groups (SIGs).
Pain Relief Foundation
The Pain Relief Foundation is a UK charity which funds research into the causes and treatment of human chronic pain and is concerned with education of health professionals about pain management.
Bedside Pain Manager
Bedside Pain Manager is a quick-reference guide, 8 pages packed with the critical pain control guidelines and reference information that doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals use on a daily basis to treat their patients' pain and symptoms
Central Pain Syndrome Foundation
We are committed to providing information and support to those suffering from Central Pain Syndrome. By increasing understanding of Central Pain Syndrome (CPS) for patients and doctors alike, we are moving towards funding research for better treatments and a cure.
Centre for Pediatric Pain Research
A patient-oriented research program in children’s pain management.
Centres for Pain Management
CPM Health Centres are being developed to help primary care physicians manage the more than 20% of their patients who suffer from chronic non-cancer pain.
Echenberg Institute for Pelvic and Sexual Pain
The Echenberg Institute for Pelvic and Sexual Pain is committed to offering support, assessment, and innovative, multi-modal and interdisciplinary treatment approaches for individuals suffering from multiple types of chronic pain related to the pelvic region.
Facial Pain Association
The mission of TNA (Trigeminal Neuralgia Association) is to serve as an advocate for patients living with TN (Trigeminal Neuralgia) and related facial pain conditions by providing information, encouraging research and offering support.
For Grace
For Grace is a nonprofit organization passionately devoted to ensuring the ethical and equal treatment of all women in pain.
International Pelvic Pain Society
In 1995 a group of physicians met to discuss their common interest in treating one of the most difficult of clinical problems, chronic pelvic pain. From the beginning, gynecologist, urologist, psychologist and other health professionals have been committed to an interdisciplinary approach to the treatment of chronic pelvic pain. After two years, the International Pelvic Pain Society (IPPS) was incorporated to serve as a forum for professional and public education.
National Vulvodynia Association
The National Vulvodynia Association (NVA) is a nonprofit organization created in 1994 to improve the lives of individuals affected by vulvodynia, a spectrum of chronic vulvar pain disorders.
NIH Pain Consortium
The National Institutes of Health consists of many different institutes and centers. The following is an index to various NIH publications about pain symptoms, conditions and treatments.
Reflex Sympathetic Dystropy Syndrome Association
Our website is designed to give patients, family members, and healthcare professionals the most up-to-date information on treatment, legislation, support groups, research, fundraising, and patient stories. RSDSA does not accept advertising for this website.
Society for Pain Practice Management
We offer information pertinent to the specialty of pain management--Diagnosis and treatment information, updates on billing and legislative news items, book reviews, online meeting registration, and Membership information, Directory of pain management providers.
American Academy of Pain Management
The American Academy of Pain Management is an inclusive, interdisciplinary organization serving clinicians who treat people with pain through education, setting standards of care, and advocacy.
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.
American Board of Pain Medicine
The mission of the American Board of Pain Medicine is to serve the public by improving the quality of Pain Medicine.
American Chronic Pain Association
Our mission is to facilitate peer support and education for individuals with chronic pain and their families so that these individuals may live more fully in spite of their pain and to raise awareness among the health care community, policy makers, and the public at large about issues of living with chronic pain.
American RDSHope
American RSDHope is an informational website for Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. It includes; description of RSD, CRPS , signs, symptoms, etiology, facts, articles, blocks, medications, treatments/therapies, RSD videos, DVDs, brochures,and more.
American Society for Action on Pain
We are an organization of patients who suffer from chronic pain, their families, the physicians who treat them, and other interested citizens. There is a crisis in pain treatment in the United States. Many, if not most, patients who are in severe pain find it almost impossible to get adequate pain medication. My own mother has called me asking me if I would understand if she committed suicide because of her pain.
American Society for Pain Management Nursing
To advance and promote optimal nursing care for people affected by pain by promoting best nursing practices.
American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
The American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine is committed to gathering the best science and expert opinion available on topics related to the safe provision of regional anesthesia, analgesia, and pain management.
Canadian Pain Society
To foster and encourage research on pain mechanisms and pain syndromes and to help improve the management of patients with acute and chronic pain by bringing together the basic scientists and health professionals of various disciplines and backgrounds who have an interest in pain research and management.
Chronic Pain Association of Canada
The Chronic Pain Association of Canada is a non-profit consumer association with three primary goals. 1. The advancement of the treatment and management of chronic intractable pain. 2. The development of research projects to promote the discovery of a cure for this disease. 3. Education of both the health care community and the public will be the primary means of accomplishing our mission.
European Pain Federation
EFIC’s aims are to advance research, education, clinical management and professional practice related to pain, and to serve as an authoritative, scientifically based resource concerning policy issues related to pain and its management.
Pain Alliance Europe
Pain Alliance Europe is a non-profit organisation based in Belgium, functioning as an umbrella organisation of 41 national and regional associations in 18 European countries, concerned with chronic pain, regardless the underlying condition.
Spanish Society of Pain
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