Our goal is to provide options and information about acute pain management, particularly needle procedures and use in the home. For needle phobia, blood glucose test pain, IV pain or immunization pain relief, read on!

Pain relief has become a major focus of medical professionals and children's hospitals in recent years.  While topical anesthetics have been around for decades and distraction has been proven to decrease chidren's distress by about 50%, these methods haven't been accessible to people who want to control pain themselves.  We want to change that.:

Child life made simple:  The homepage of this position of comfort site lays out how good Child Life intervention can work.  ONE VOICE says it all!

Pediatric Pain Letter: This is edited by the wonderful, handsome, and generous Dr. Carl von Baeyer.  It provides free, open-access, peer-reviewed commentaries on pain in infants, children and adolescents.  May be pitched more at a level to academics than lay audiences.

Pediatric Pain Sourcebook This is a wonderful pain information web site, presenting everything from "prepare your adolescent for..." parent guides to health care protocols for pain relief. The best thing is that all the resources are downloadable for FREE, and are peer reviewed: Both the science and the content are discussed by an unbiased source before they present the materials. We recommend this article: "Pain, Pain, Go Away: Making cancer less painful."

Mayday Pain Project The Mayday Pain Project provides easy to read information about pain issues such as chronic pain, arthritis, headache, cancer and other conditions causing pain for use by patients, caregivers and medical professionals.

Pain.com Continuing education, news, online journal, meeting calendar, pain topics.

American Pain Society 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.

Oxford Pain Internet SiteThis 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.

Children's Pain Assessment Project Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, The Children's Pain Assessment Project: "Goals: To disseminate research findings regarding nursing assessment of pain in children; To reach consensus on guidelines for the implementation of standardised paediatric pain assessment in hospital settings..."

Special Interest Group on Pain in Childhood International Association for the Study of Pain ® Objectives: to promote education about pain in children, to share relevant information about children's pain control, to advance our ability to alleviate children's pain from an international and interdisciplinary perspective, and to encourage research, particularly multicenter studies, and studies which focus on unique problems of pediatrics, including newborns.

Canadian Pain Society The Canadian Pain Society (CPS) includes as members a variety of people interested in pain: physicians, dentists, nurses, physiotherapists, psychologists, scientists, and analgesia professionals, and lay persons with an interest in the management of pain.

We like this editorial by and for nurses about the importance of needle pain.

Needle Phobia Information Site Information on needle phobia, treatments and resources, and read stories of many others who have suffered from this exasperating condition.

NeedlePhobia.com A starting point for overcoming an important, but often-ignored condition.
Needle phobia: a neglected diagnosis

CDC Vaccines and Immunizations

Centers for Disease Control's Vaccines and Immunizations web site HOME PAGE
Child Health Specialists Library

The library addresses a wide range of topics related to the health and well being of children. It is primarily aimed at professionals involved in the care of children, but it is hoped that it will be of value to all users when seeking information on a wide variety of aspects of child health.

www.natural-pain-relief-guide.com This natural pain relief guide provides the knowledge you need to understand the causes of pain. It gives natural solutions for quick and lasting relief by dealing with the cause of the pain. There are pages that cover various aspects of lifestyle and pages specifically for different types of pain.

Hypnosis and Health Hypnosis CDs, hypnotherapy, motivational techniques, brain wave training and practical health advice.