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The American Academy of Pain Management (the Academy) is a non-profit organization that educates clinicians about pain and its management through an integrative interdisciplinary approach. The Academy provides an environment for clinicians from a variety of healthcare disciplines to network and share knowledge for optimal patient care. | |
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The American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) is the medical specialty society representing physicians practicing in the field of Pain Medicine. As a medical specialty society, the Academy is involved in education, training, advocacy, and research in the specialty of Pain Medicine. | |
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This section helps you understand what pain is, how it is felt, and the reasons why it occurs. It also contains an extended examination of the different types of pain, the typical symptoms pain produces in children of different ages, and why the treatment of pain is so important beyond relieving discomfort. | |
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To facilitate peer support and education for individuals with chronic pain and their families so that these individuals may live more fully in spite of their pain. To raise awareness among the health care community, policy makers, and the public at large about issues of living with chronic pain | |
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The American Pain Foundation is an independent nonprofit 501(c)3 organization serving people with pain through information, advocacy, and support. Our mission is to improve the quality of life of people with pain by raising public awareness, providing practical information, promoting research, and advocating to remove barriers and increase access to effective pain management. |
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The American Pain Society is a multidisciplinary community that brings together a diverse group of scientists, clinicians and other professionals to increase the knowledge of pain and transform public policy and clinical practice to reduce pain-related suffering. | |
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To advance and promote optimal nursing care for people affected by pain by promoting best nursing practices. | |
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ASRA is the premier organization that addresses the clinical and professional educational needs of physicians and scientists; assures excellence in patient care utilizing regional anaesthesia and pain medicine; and investigates the scientific basis of the specialty. |
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The FPM is the body responsible for training, education and standards for Pain Medicine in Australia and New Zealand. | |
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The Australian Pain Society is a multidisciplinary body that aims to reduce pain and related suffering through leadership in clinical practice, education, research, and public advocacy. “All people should have timely access to pain management” | |
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The British Pain Society is the largest multidisciplinary professional organisation in the field of pain within the UK. Our membership comprises medical pain specialists, nurses, physiotherapists, scientists, psychologists, occupational therapists and other healthcare professionals actively engaged in the diagnosis and treatment of pain and in pain research for the benefit of patients. Our multidisciplinary nature is pivotal in making our society a uniquely relevant representative body on all matters relating to pain. | |
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n 1982, The Canadian Pain Society became a chapter of the International Association for the Study of Pain. The CPS includes as members a variety of people interested in pain:
management of pain
lay persons with an interest in the field of pain | |
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The Chronic Pain Policy Coalition (CPPC) is a forum uniting professionals, parliamentarians and patients who operate at a policy level to develop an improved strategy for the prevention, treatment and management of chronic pain and its associated conditions. The Coalition seeks to improve the lives of the 7.8 million people who live with chronic pain in the UK as well as realising substantial economic and social benefits | |
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Citizens for a World Free from Chronic Pain (CWFCP) was started to help connect people who are tired of the fact that pain management seems to be the only solution offered to pain sufferers and their families. There is too much suffering and too much money spent on drugs and treatments that simply keep people in their pain. | |
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To inform politicians and other decision makers of the enormous suffering and the cost to society in billions of pounds resultant of unemployment, family breakdown, depression and, in some cases, suicide”... “To view the establishment of the Scottish Parliament as a chance to start afresh, overturn decades of neglect, often unintentional, of one of the biggest health issues in society ... | |
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The European Federation of IASP chapters (EFIC) is a multidisciplinary professional organization in the field of pain science and medicine, made up of the 30 European Chapters of IASP (International Association for the Study of Pain). Established in 1993, by Prof. Ulf Lindblom, EFIC's 30 constituent chapters represent 33 countries and close to 18.000 scientists, physicians, nurses, physiotherapists, psychologists and other healthcare professionals across Europe, who study pain and treat patients in pain. | |
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We run FREE courses for people living with long-term health conditions. Our main aim is to improve the quality of life for people living with long-term health conditions. Our courses are designed to give people the tools, techniques and confidence to better their condition better on a daily basis. We are a not-for-profit social enterprise established in April 2007 (a community Interest Company registered in England) | |
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IASP brings together scientists, clinicians, health care providers, and policy makers to stimulate and support the study of pain and to translate that knowledge into improved pain relief worldwide. Founded in 1973, IASP is the world's largest multidisciplinary organization focused specifically on pain research and treatment. IASP currently has more than 6,500 members from 123 countries and in 82 chapters. | |
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The Irish Chronic Pain Association is the principal support group in Ireland for the 400,000 people of all ages suffering with chronic pain. This figure emerged following a Pain in Europe survey, carried out in 2003 by NFO World Group. | |
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The NPF Mission is to improve the quality of life for those living with pain through information, education, and support that connects persons with pain to each other and to those that can help. The NPF recognizes that pain is real. It is a disease in and of itself that needs to be diagnosed and managed as comprehensively as any other disease. Our goal is to empower patients by helping them become actively involved in the design of their treatment plan, exploring both traditional and complementary approaches to pain management. All information distributed by the NPF is peer-reviewed by NPF Board members and other professionals who are highly qualified in their respective fields. This means that the information about pain conditions created by the NPF is both up-to-date and accurate. | |
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The NIH Pain Consortium was established to enhance pain research and promote collaboration among researchers across the many NIH Institutes and Centers that have programs and activities addressing pain. To this end, the following goals have been identified for the Pain Consortium: MORE | |
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Joining a support group offers the opportunity to be listened to, to talk about how you feel, hear how others cope with similar problems and learn actively to control pain. The Association recognises that it is not only pain sufferers who experience distress, but carers, relatives and friends may also need support. | |
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painSupport is Jan Sadler's web site. Jan is the author of 'Natural Pain Relief' published by CW Daniel Books. She has back and leg pain (sciatica) and has worked with people in pain since 1990. | |
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Osteopaths Guide provides a comprehensive guide to osteopathy for the general public; with up to date information on all aspects of osteopathic healthcare, whether it be for treatment, general help or advice. |
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