Chronic Pain
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Articles, Fact Sheets, Pamphlets, Journals & Videos
PARL subscribes to the Gale Health and Wellness Resource Center database. This service is available free to anyone with a Library card. Not only can you access thousands of articles, pamphlets and fact sheets on various health topics but also informative video files. Below are links to a sampling of the many resources from the database available on the subject of Chronic Pain.
When the Pain Just Won't Go Away
Putting an End to Chronic Pain
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Suggested Books
These books are just a small sample of books on the topic of chronic pain from our collection. Please search the online catalogue for a more complete listing.
- The pain chronicles: cures, myths, mysteries, prayers, diaries, brain scans, healing, and the science of suffering
- Headaches that persist: 14+ years of research on headaches, migraines & rare headaches
- Stop being your symptoms and start being yourself: the 6-week mind-body program to ease your chronic symptoms
- The truth about chronic pain: patients and professionals on how to face it, understand it, overcome it
- The chronic pain solution: your personal path to pain relief
- Mayo Clinic on chronic pain
- Pain: the science and culture of why we hurt
- Relieving Pain Naturally
- Outwitting back pain: why your lower back hurts and how to make it stop
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Local Information, Organizations & Featured Links
Medline Plus on Pain
Website: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/pain.html
Canadian Arthritis Society (under Tips for Living Well)
Website:
http://www.arthritis.ca/
Health Connections Resource Centre
HEALTH CONNECTIONS in the People's Place Library.
283 Main Street,
Antigonish, NS B2G 2C3
Tel: (902) 863-7369
Fax: (902) 863-9318
Email: smithlj@gasha.nshealth.ca
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