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• #1........best url concerning CENTRAL PAIN SYNDROME... A MUST SEE
  PainOnline
  http://www.painonline.org
  Descriptions of Central Pain
  Who Gets Central Pain?
  Sources and Guidelines,Links to online Articles and Abstracts about Central
  Pain
  Featured Articles:
  Nature of Pain
  How Pain Nerve Cells Act When They Are In Pain
  Guessing at the Cause of Central Pain:
  Pain in the Little Brain, by Dr. Carl Y. Saab Ph.D. Yale/VA
  Visit the PainOnline Discussion Forum
  more....
   

• Central Pain, the Pepper Spray Disease
  A very encompassing article by Dr. K. McHenry [Dr. McHenry has had Central Pain for a number of years and has contributed to research in the area.] He describes central pain, and the intense need of finding help before the pain overcomes one's will to live.
  http://medicalreporter.health.org/tmr0796/pain.html
   

• The Neuropathy Association ..OUTSTANDING ORG. FOR CPS/NEUROPATHY CAUSES.
  NA sends out a useful snail mail newsletter 3 times a year.. and sends out free info when contacted. A MUST HAVE.
  http://www.neuropathy.org/
   

• PNS Neuropathies Articles 1999-2000 nothing newer
  Suite101.com
  40+ Excellent articles by Les Abrams on neuropathic concerns. Read them all.
  www.suite101.com/articles.cfm/pns
   

• Pain Management Department Therapy by Diagnosis.
  site by Harvard Medical School Brigham & Women's Hospital Pain Management.
  Central pain syndromes are notoriously one of the most difficult pain syndromes to treat. Central pain can arise form a lesion anywhere within the central nervous system, but usually the lesion involves the spinothalamic tract......This CPS page has a short description, a few stats. Treatments are mentioned. Has a phantom limb page. Has a neuropathic pain page, and lists the usual treatments on it. There is a rather good page concerning
  vocational rehabilitation for chronic pain patients.
  http://www.hmcnet.harvard.edu/brighampain/therapy/centralpain.html
   

• Central Pain Syndromes
  Pain management site from the University of Utah. Spinal Cord Injury Pain Central Pain Syndromes Pain Outlines Topics Nociception: Transduction Nociception: Transmission Nociception: Modulation The ANS Pain measurement Epidemiology of mental illness Deafferentiation pain Peripheral neuropathies and neuralgias Sympathetic
  http://www-medlib.med.utah.edu/pain_center/education/outlines/central_pain.html
  
  
• Pelicci Pain Relief Center Scranton Pa
  This site is run by a Dr. who treats chronic pain and has cps patients. It has some good chronic pain concerned articles.
  http://www.PelicciPainRelief.com/
  
  
• http://www.bayareapainmedical.com/whatshot.html
  interesting diagram of central pain, neurostimulators.
  
  
• NINDS Central Pain Syndrome Information Page
  Reviewed 06-27-2000 OLDER THAN 1995 RESEARCH [TOO OLD]
  Table of Contents: What is Central Pain Syndrome? Is there any treatment? What is the prognosis? What research is being done? Selected references Organizations BUT THEY SAY...."Central pain syndrome is not a fatal disorder." THIS IS SO WRONG! [THE SUICIDE RATE IS NOT SMALL]
  http://www.ninds.nih.gov/health_and_medical/disorders/centpain_doc.htm
  
  
• chronic pain post stroke pain
  http://www.painrelieffoundation.org.uk/html/poststroke.html
  One in 8% of stroke patients get nerve pain after stroke, known as Central Post-Stroke Pain (CPSP).
  
  
• complex regional pain syndrome [RSD]
  http://www.aafp.org/afp/971200ap/pittman.html
  
  
• Neuropathic Pain: New Insights, New Interventions
  http://www.hosppract.com/issues/1998/10/bennett.htm
  
  
• NEUROSURGERY://ON-CALL
  http://www.neurosurgery.org/index.html
  Covers a wide variety of neurological surgical situations. Informative Neurosurgeons Use Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for Treatment of Trigeminal Neuralgia
   

• Neurological Disorder Resources
  http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/disorders.html
   

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