Web Resources for Pain Patients
and their Families
These pages were compiled by Sarah O'Neil. A more complete list of the pages dedicated to understanding pain, the needs of pain patients, and an illustrated version is available on Sarah home page: http://www.azstarnet.com/~oneil/ .
(These links all open a second window. When you're done close that window and you are still on this ipcaz.org page).
ON THE NATURE OF PAIN
General Anatomy
A comprehensive interactive cardio/thoracic anatomy guide from the
Yale School of Medicine
The "Visible Human" anatomy project from the National Library of Medicine
Interactive Exhibits
Spine surgery animations from Spine-Health
General Information
JACHO Pain Management Standards
The Veterans Administration "Pain, the 5th Vital Sign" initiative
Breast Cancer Treatment Guidelines for Patients
Pamphlets, Guides, and Brochures
A Pain Action Guide from the American Pain Foundation For patients living in the Western United States there is a Western USA Pain Society. It's President is: Corinne Manetto, Ph.D. She can be reached at the Cedars-Sinai Compre Cancer Center; Coord. of Psychological Services; Los Angeles, CA 90048; phone: 310/855-8030 x314; fax: 310/659-3928.
The Arthritis Foundation's Connect and Control personalized, "just for you"
exercise program
Pain Measurement Scales and Indexes
The Wong-Baker FACES Pain Rating Scale
Original instructions and translations of those instructions for making use of the Wong-Baker FACES Pain Rating Scale (translations for Bosnian, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, and Vietnamese).
Additional indexes and scales used for measuring pain
Measuring Cancer pain (English); (Spanish) El dolor asociado con el cáncer
