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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.
Needless Suffering
by David NagelNeedless Suffering offers a sociological examination of a complex medical problem: chronic pain and the inability of doctors and other health professionals to understand and manage it in their patients. People in pain, writes Dr. David Nagel, are the...
Pain in Children and Young Adults: The Journey Back to Normal
by Lonnie Zeltzer, MD and Paul Zeltzer, MDOffers a guide to take control of the pain - regardless of the cause(s) - and, ultimately, help your child to chilm out of pain and get back to a normal life.
Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force Report
Developed by a broad group of representatives and stakeholders, this report identifies gaps, inconsistencies, and updates and provides recommendations for best practices for managing acute and chronic pain.
Pain Management Network
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.
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.