PATIENT EDUCATION

National Pain Organizations:

• American Pain Society
  
• American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians
• American Pain Foundation
• National Fibromyalgia Association
• National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke: Chronic Pain
• National Cancer Institute: Pain Control

Patient Education Sites:

• Medline Plus
• Pain.com
• Wikipedia: Chronic pain
• PainEDU.org

Articles of interest:

• Journal of the American Medical Association: Acute Pain Treatment
• The American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc: Managing Chronic Pain
• The Arthritis Foundation: Understanding Your Pain
• Family Doctor.org: Low Back Pain