This website is designed to help you gain a better understanding of your pain. The site contains information to enable you to develop skills and knowledge in the self management of your pain in partnership with your healthcare providers.
Resources
AACIPM website includes a repository of resources that support the mission to advance access to equitable, whole person, multimodal, guideline-concordant integrative pain management.
More resources and publications will be coming soon. If you have suggestions about relevant resources that should be included, please contact Amy Goldstein.
Pain Out Loud
Educating and empowering those with pain to minimize drugs, injections and surgeries
Pain: An Owner’s Manual: Intimate conversations about pain
by Georgia HustonA young pain victim’s inspirational and informative conversations with a variety of pain sufferers and specialists. They share their experiences with pain, their coping strategies, and what works for them in getting through the day.
painHEALTH
Empowering you to manage pain - Clinically supported information, tips, support and personal stories to help you manage musculoskeletal pain.
Pain: The Science and Culture of Why We Hurt
by Marni JacksonA compulsively readable explorer’s journal of the hidden territory of pain, as profound and insightful as the work of Oliver Sacks and Sherwin Nuland.
PainScale
Let's make pain management better for everyone through education, condition tracking, and personalized reports
Patient Mind
Patient Mind Inc. provides education to improve dialogue during healthcare visits. The average face-time with a healthcare provider is less than eight minutes. These eight minutes are extremely important for the patient. When patients are educated prior to this...
painACTION
The goal of painACTION is to help people improve their self-management of their pain condition. Written with the help of health educators, pain experts, and people dealing with pain, this site is a resource to come back to repeatedly.
Patients Rising
Patients Rising is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to providing support and education to people with chronic and life-threatening illnesses. We work with patients to advocate for access to the treatments, innovations and care they need.
Personalized Activated Care & Training (PACT)
Report on Pain Management Best Practices: Updates, Gaps, Inconsistencies, and Recommendations
The Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force Report emphasizes the importance of providing balanced, individualized, patient-centered pain management to ensure better clinical outcomes for pain that improve quality of life and functionality for...
RSDSA
Our mission is to provide support, education, and hope to all affected by the pain and disability of CRPS/RSD, while we drive research to develop better treatments and a cure.
SleepCycle
Sleep Cycle tracks and analyzes your sleep, waking you up at the most perfect time, feeling rested.
Smiling Mind
Equipping young people with the integral skills they need to thrive in life
Take Charge of Your Chronic Pain
by Peter Abaci, MDComprehensive approach to chronic pain, one rooted in cutting edge research and case studies
Tame the Beast
Professor Lorimer Moseley explains how pain works and explains new approaches to help reduce your pain.
The Arthritis Foundation
The Arthritis Foundation helps you live your best life by creating a powerful network of support through shared experiences, empowering information and meaningful connections. Whether it’s online or in person, we are all working together to promote life-changing...
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
by Bessel van der Kolk, MDDr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and...
The Frida Center for Fibromyalgia
The Frida Center for Fibromyalgia is an integrative medical clinic founded by Dr. Ginevra Liptan based on her personal experience with this complex illness.
The Last Scroll
by James Fricton, DDSDr. James Fricton set out to write a book about the factors that tip the balance between health and illness, particularly chronic pain, and what actions can be taken to enhance energy and wellness in the seven realms of our lives-the mind, body,...