The
Alliance of
State Pain Initiatives (ASPI)
offers an excellent Resource Center. Although
some of the available materials focus on
providers of care, there are also interesting
options for pain sufferers.
ASPI, working with the University of Wisconsin (whose School of Medicine is central in pain education) has produced a the following set of pain resources:
ASPI, working with the University of Wisconsin (whose School of Medicine is central in pain education) has produced a the following set of pain resources:
Pain Organizations and Resources
- American Academy of Pain Management
http://www.aapainmanage.org - American Academy of Pain Medicine
http://www.painmed.org - American Chronic Pain Association
http://www.theacpa.org/ - American Pain Foundation
http://www.painfoundation.org - American Pain Society
http://www.ampainsoc.org - American Society for Pain Management
Nursing
http://www.aspmn.org - Beth Israel Medical Center –
Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care
http://www.stoppain.org - Chronic Pain Network –
sponsored by King Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
www.chronicpainnetwork.com - City of Hope – Pain /
Palliative Care Resource Center
http://www.cityofhope.org/prc - Federation of State Medical Boards
– Pain Policy Resource Center
http://www.fsmb.org - For Grace – Reflex Sympathetic
Dystrophy
http://www.forgrace.org - International Association for the
Study of Pain
http://www.iasp-pain.org - The Mayday Pain Project
http://www.painandhealth.org - National Chronic Pain Society
http://www.ncps-cpr.org/ - National Fibromyalgia Association
http://www.fmaware.org - National Foundation for the Treatment
of Pain
http://www.paincare.org - National Institutes of Health - Pain
Consortium
http://painconsortium.nih.gov/ - National Pain Foundation
http://www.nationalpainfoundation.org - National Vulvodynia Association
http://www.nva.org - Pain.com – sponsored by the
Dannemiller Memorial Educational Foundation
http://www.pain.com - painACTION
http://www.painaction.com - PainEdu.org - Improving Pain
Treatment Through Education
http://www.painedu.org - Pain & Policy Studies Group
– University of Wisconsin
http://www.painpolicy.wisc.edu - Pain Treatment Topics
http://www.pain-topics.com - Partners Against Pain –
sponsored by Purdue Pharma
http://www.partnersagainstpain.com - Partners for Understanding Pain
http://www.theacpa.org/ - World Health Organization publication
- Cancer Pain Release
http://www.whocancerpain.wisc.edu
Cancer Organizations and Resources
- American Cancer Society
http://www.cancer.org - American Society of Clinical Oncology
http://www.asco.org - Association of Cancer Online
Resources, Inc
http://www.acor.org - Association of Oncology Social Work
http://www.aosw.org - Association of Pediatric Oncology
Nurses
http://www.apon.org - C-Change
http://www.c-changetogether.com - CancerCare
http://www.cancercare.org - CancerSource.com
http://www.cancersource.com - Cancer Information Service –
National Cancer Institute
http://cis.nci.nih.gov/ - Cancer-Pain.org
http://www.cancer-pain.org - Internet Resources for Cancer
http://www.cancerindex.org - Intercultural Cancer Council
http://iccnetwork.org - The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
of America
http://www.leukemia-lymphoma.org - LIVESTRONG – Lance Armstrong
Foundation
http://www.livestrong.org/ - National Cancer Institute
http://www.cancer.gov - National Children’s Cancer
Society
http://www.children-cancer.org - National Coalition for Cancer
Survivorship
http://www.canceradvocacy.org - National Ovarian Cancer Coalition
http://ovarian.org - National Prostate Cancer Coalition
http://www.fightprostatecancer.org - Native American Cancer Research
http://natamcancer.org - Oncology Nursing Society
http://www.ons.org - PanCAN - Pancreatic Cancer Action
Network
http://www.pancan.org/ - The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer
Foundation
http://www.komen.org - Texas Children’s Cancer Center
- Cancer Pain Management in Children
http://www.childcancerpain.org - University of Wisconsin Paul P.
Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center
http://www.cancer.wisc.edu
Palliative Care / Hospice / End-of-Life Care
- American Academy of Hospice and
Palliative Medicine
http://www.aahpm.org - American Board of Hospice and
Palliative Medicine
http://www.abhpm.org - American Hospice Foundation
http://www.americanhospice.org - Center to Advance Palliative Care
http://www.capc.org - Center for Practical Bioethics
http://www.practicalbioethics.org - Children’s Hospice
International
http://www.chionline.org - End of Life Nursing Education
Consortium (ELNEC)
http://www.aacn.nche.edu/ELNEC - End of Life Physician Education
Resource Center
http://www.eperc.mcw.edu - Get Palliative Care!
http://www.getpalliativecare.org - Hospice and Palliative Nurses
Association
http://www.hpna.org - Hospice Resources
http://www.hospiceresources.net - International Association for Hospice
and Palliative Care
http://www.hospicecare.com - National Association of Attorneys
General – End-of-Life Health Care project
http://www.naag.org - National Hospice and Palliative Care
Organization
http://www.nhpco.org - National Palliative Care Research
Center (NPCRC)
http://www.npcrc.org