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MOPI Launches On-line Pain Directory – Find Help Here

Need help finding someone who can assess and treat your pain? The Missouri Pain Initiative has launched an on-line directory containing a list of pain professionals who currently provide pain management services to Missourians. You can search the directory by pain professional specialty, type of pain condition, pain professional name, or geographic area. To access the directory click here. NOTE: This is a voluntary listing and not all inclusive. It is our hope that as more pain professionals become aware of the opportunity to be listing in the directory, more will add their information.

Pain Professionals - Get Listed In Our On-Line Pain Directory

The Missouri Pain Initiative is continuing to accept and welcome listings in our on-line directory of pain professionals who currently provide pain management services to Missourians. Click here to complete a directory listing. You also will be required to download, sign and return a disclaimer before your listing will be released to the directory.

Alliance of State Pain Initiatives - 19th Annual Meeting - Save the Date!

Frontiers in Pain Management: October 31 - November 1, 2008 - Austin Hilton, Austin, Texas

In the Media - Living with Fibromyalgia

KOMU station in Columbia, MO aired a 3-part series on the challenges of living with and receving the proper assessment of and treatment for fibromyalgia. After clicking on the link, look to the right and find the screen where you can view the story.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

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The Missouri Pain Initiative is an active supporter or the American Pain Foundation’s Power Over Pain Campaign (POP), a national network of people working to eliminate the undertreatment of pain through action-oriented public awareness, education, and pain policy improvement activities in their communities and states. We have organized a Power Over Pain speaker’s bureau of trained volunteers available to present to state and local organizations, libraries, or community groups at no charge. The presentations help people with pain and their caregivers better understand their pain, ways to describe it to healthcare professionals, ways to treat it, and how to find help. To get information on how to request a talk in your community, please contact us.

Join the American Pain Foundation’s Power Over Pain Action Network and keep up-to-date on pain happenings, POP news and information, and action alerts about pending pain policy and legislation.

Managing Pain Begins with You: Brochure CoverFree Pain Resource - Managing Pain Begins with You

Managing Pain Begins with You is an easy to read and understand pain brochure for pain sufferers and health care providers and their practice settings. Click here to view the brochure and get ordering information.

 

Recent News

Study Finds Biological Link Between Pain and Fatigue
A recent University of Iowa study reveals a biological link between pain and fatigue and may help explain why more women than men are diagnosed with chronic pain and fatigue conditions like fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome.
(Read More)

Back Pain: What Works
Simple treatments may help as much as high-tech gadgets or surgery.
Link to Full Article in Forbes Magazine

New Research Shows Millions of Americans in Chronic Pain
More than a quarter of Americans suffer daily pain, a condition that costs the U.S. about $60 billion a year in lost productivity.
(Link to Time.com article)

Save the Date
The MOPI Board of Directors will hold a strategic planning meeting on Friday, July 11, 2008 from 12:30 to 3:00 pm at the Paula J. Carter Center on Minority Health and Aging, 900 Leslie Blvd.,Jefferson City The meeting is open to all MOPI members and other interested persons.

Quality of Chronic Pain Websites
The Web not only can play a role in helping patients learn about their chronic pain, but can also be a source of misleading or untrue information. This study evaluates the quality of internet information available concerning chronic pain at different sites, and determines the relation between quality and the source and character of the websites.
Link to Full Article



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