Here you can find a list of links to our favourite sites. If you know of a site that should be here but isn't, please drop us a line! Our email addresses are in the right hand column.
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Websites on Pain
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This extensive site is for health professionals interested in learning the latest in pain treatment. It strives to organize links to all the other major pain sites, and present fresh information with a strong research theme weekly.
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A blog by Kevin McHenry on Central Pain, connected to Patrick Wall's original website. Contains extensive archives on neurophysiology of pain and also what it's like to have central pain.
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The Canadian Pain Coalition is a Partnership of patient pain groups, health professionals who care for people in pain, and scientists studying better ways of treating pain. See a series of webcasts by Neil Pearson, below, sponsored by CPC.
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(About 45 minutes)
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(About 42 minutes)
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(About an hour)
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Websites for therapists
Resources to help you learn more about pain-
Louis Gifford and Phillippa Tindle are a pair of zoologists who became physiotherapists. Gifford is a prolific educator and writer. Their site offers the Topical Issues in Pain book series for physiotherapists.
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NOI provides workshops worldwide to physiotherapists interested in working from a pain perspective. David Butler's books are available from this site. A discussion forum on pain assists therapists to broaden their thinking.
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Michael Shacklock teaches neurodynamics worldwide. His books are sold through this site; the CD showing real time ultrasound images of nerves moving through tissue is a must see.
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This is a great pain study resource for all clinicians working with patients in pain. (Tip: You may need to load the url onto a new page.)
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CPAM provides comprehensive professional development for professionals who care for pain sufferers.
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There are three blogs attached to this link. The other two are linked in his top banner.
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Professional Organizations of Physiotherapists
Provincial and national PT resourses-
Eugene Barskye, helpful librarian for the PT association members in B.C., keeps this blog and posts a variety of interesting topics and search tips for PTs living anywhere.