This website is devoted to information and dialog regarding SCI pain or central pain. Check it out at http://www.painonline.com/

Spinal Cord Injury Information Network at UAB

The UAB Model Spinal Cord Injury Center has excellent information on Pain after SCI. The site offers a downloadble PDF or text version of their Pain Managmement after SCI InfoSheet. There is also an comprehensive page of links related to SCI and pain. The main website address is http://www.spinalcord.uab.edu/

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University of Washington: Forums

"Using Hypnosis for Spinal Cord Injury Pain" is an informative page with text and videos. The main website address is http://sci.washington.edu/

Glossary for Pain and Sensation Terminology

SCI-Info-Pages

An informative resource about a spinal cord injury or other disabling injuries or diseases of the spine. The site has an excellent glossary of SCI terms./ The main website address is http://www.sci-info-pages.com/.

Brigham and Womens Hospital

Information about "Translational Pain Research".

Science Daily

Information about a treatment discovery. Article is titled "Researchers Discover Treatment For Spinal Cord Injury Pain".

Yale University

News release titled "Researchers Pinpoint Source of Chronic Pain Resulting from Spinal Cord Injury".

Pain Rating Scales

PainChannel

The Pain Management Community on the healthcommunities.com network has a lot of helpful information regarding pain managment. The link here goes to an overview of pain rating scales. http://pain.healthcommunities.com/pain-scales/index.shtml

Ask.com

"Can you rate your pain?" is an overview of pain scales. Simple explanations. http://pain.about.com/od/testingdiagnosis/a/pain_scales.htm

M D Anderson Cancer Center documents

Downloadable PDF documents are available for a typical numerical scale and a typical facial expression scale.

The Neuropath Trust at Neurocentre.com

The LANSS (Leeds Assessment of Neuropathic Symptoms and Signs) is a pain scale that assists in determining the likelihood that your pain is neuropathic in nature. The S-LANSS is a Self-Report version. This site hasthe S-LANSS in a downloadable PDF versionand an online self test. This site is dedicated to the subject of neuropathic pain. The main website address is http://www.neurocentre.com.

National Institute of Health: Pain Consortium

The Pain Consortium has a number of pain scales available as downloadable PDF files. This site has a lot of information about research on pain. The main website address is http://painconsortium.nih.gov/.