Resources
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OT working in, or considering working in, pain management should endeavour to become familiar with some of the following resources. NOTPA also has a suggest a list of national and international literature/resources about OT in pain management which you may download here.
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CDs
There are a number of CD-ROM presentations from the World Congress on Pain, Sydney 2005 available for you to borrow. These cover:
- Abstracts
- Developing Risk Factor Targeted Interventions for Pain
- Hypervigilance and Attention to Pain (Crombez, G.)
- Imotivational Issues in Pain Self-Management
- Neurobiology of Central Pain (Hunt, S.)
- New Directions in Occupational Rehabilitation
- Overuse as a Risk Factor for Pain Disability
- Pain as an Affective Experience with Cognitive & Behavioural
- Psychophysiology of Fibromyalgia
- The John C. Liebeskind History of Pain Collection: Pain Oral History Project
Please contact Marietta Birkholtz by post or phone, and she will be happy to provide these for you:
The RealHealth Institute
23-31 Beavor Lane
London W6 9AR
T:+44 (0)208 8463710
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Website Links
- Pain Association Scotland
Pain Association Scotland is a National Voluntary Organisation founded to develop support groups for those members of the community who live with chronic pain, whatever the cause, and including cancer-related pain. - Physiotherapy Pain Association
The Physiotherapy Pain Association (PPA) was formed to bring together and provide information for Physiotherapists with the common interest of managing patients with both acute and long term pain. The site contains a very interesting discussion forum and OTs are welcome to contribute to it. - International Association for the
study of Pain
IASP is a non-profit professional organization dedicated to furthering research on pain and improving the care of patients with pain. - Back Care
BackCare is a UK Charity which helps people manage and prevent back pain by providing advice, promoting self help, encouraging debate and funding scientific research into better back care. - The Pain Society
The British chapter of the International Association for the Study of Pain. - Bandolier:
The Oxford Pain Internet Site
This site is for anyone with a professional or personal interest in pain and analgesia. It is firmly based in the principles of evidence-based medicine and has pulled together systematic reviews with pain as an outcome. - Bandolier:
Systematic reviews on pain topics
Bibliography of article relating to various Pain topics - Scottish Network for Chronic Pain
Research
The aim of this new project is to conduct, promote and coordinate research that will help inform policy and practice in the management of chronic pain. - The Pain Research Institute: University of Liverpool
- Input Pain Management Programme: St Thomas' Hospital London
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Textbooks
- Caudill, M. (1995). Managing pain before it manages you. New York: Guilford Press.
- Gatchel, R.J. & Turk, D.C. (1996). Psychological Approaches to Pain Management: a practitioners handbook. New York: Guilford Press.
- Gifford, L. (1998). Topical issues in pain. NOI Press.
- Krishnan, K.H.S. (1983). When bad things happen to good people. New York: Avon.
- Main, C. & Spanswick, C.C. (2000). Pain Management: an interdisciplinary approach. Churchill Livingstone.
- Melzack, R. & Wall, P. (1996). The Challenge of Pain. (reprint & update). Penguin Books.
- Payne, R.A. (1995). Relaxation techniques: A practical handbook for the health care professional. Churchill Livingstone.
- 0'Hara, P.M. (1996). Pain Management for Health Professionals. Chapman & Hall.
- Shone, N. (1995). Coping successfully with pain. Sheldon Press.
- Skevington, S. (1995). Psychology of pain. Wiley.
- Strong, J. (1996). Chronic Pain: The Occupational Therapy Perspective. Churchill Livingstone.
- Tedeschi, R. & Calhoun, L. (1995). Trauma and Transformation: Growing in the aftermath of suffering. Sage.
- Turk, D.C. & Melzack, R. (1996). Handbook of Pain Assessment. The Guilford Press.
- Wall, P. (1999). Pain: The science of suffering. Weidenfield & Nicholson.
- Wells, C. & Nown, G. (1993). The pain relief handbook. Vermillion.
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Reports
- Clinical Standards Advisory Group (1994). Back Pain: Report of a CSAG committee on back pain. London: HMSO.
- Clinical Standards Advisory Group (1999). Services for Patients with Pain. Department of Health.
- Department of Health (1999). The prevalence of back pain in Great Britain in 1998.
- Faculty of Occupational Medicine (March 2000). Occupational Health Guidelines: Management of Low Back Pain at Work.
- Royal College of General Practitioners (1999). Clinical Guidelines for the Management of Acute Low Back Pain. London, Royal College of General Practitioners.
