Monday, June 26, 2006

Frida Kahlo: The Broken Column (1944)




"The Broken Column, done in 1944, may be the one of Frida's paintings that show the pain she was feeling the most. The Column itself, which is broken, shows one of the sources of her pain, the nails in her body show in a physical way the pain she was enduring, and the tears in Frida's eyes show that her pain was excruciating. Frida's face shows both courage, and resignation; Frida's nudity may suggest that she felt she could do little about her situation. But in spite of all her pain, Frida kept on expressing herself by making outstanding paintings..."

http://www.fbuch.com/fridaby.htm

MedlinePlus: Pain (good site for information)



http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/pain.html

Power Over Pain Campaign


http://www.painfoundation.org/poweroverpain/

American Pain Foundation


http://www.painfoundation.org/

UAB Center for Palliative Care / The Palliative Response book



http://www.palliative.uab.edu/response/

DIALOGUES IN PAIN MANAGEMENT: A TOWN HALL EVENT WEBCAST


http://www.pain.com/sections/professional/cme_slide_presentations/cpn/

Pain.com - A world of information on pain



http://www.pain.com/

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center - Pain Management


http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/474.cfm

Pain Management Advocacy Toolkit Download Page



http://www.partnersagainstpain.com/painadvocacycommunity/PAC_Toolkit.htm

American Chronic Pain Association


http://www.theacpa.org/

National Foundation for the Treatment of Pain

The National Foundation for the Treatment of Pain is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing support for patients who are suffering from intractable pain, their families, friends and the physicians who treat them.
We are also a resource for medical professionals and attorneys concerned with legal issues regarding the legitimate treatment of pain.


http://www.paincare.org/

painCare.ca


http://www.paincare.ca/Index.aspx

Canadian Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Network


http://www.canadianrsd.com/

CIRPD.org, Canadian Institute for the Relief of Pain and Disability


http://www.cirpd.org/v3/cfm/index.cfm

The Chronic Pain Association of Canada


http://www.chronicpaincanada.com/

Canadian Pain Coalition: Links to some Canadian pain sites



http://www.painhurtscanada.ca/links.htm

Partners Against Pain®: Your Around-the-Clock Resource for Pain Management


http://www.partnersagainstpain.com/

PubMed: Psychology of Pain feed


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PubMed: Psychology of Pain


feed://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/erss.cgi?rss_guid=0BZrtxZ6S1vfCuTMuadLf5AOOB9gmgyuC___xhMnNfD

HubMed - PubMed rewired


http://www.hubmed.org/

RSS Feeds Available from PubMed - Daily updates on medical topics

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj05/mj05_rss.html



Library 101 Tutorial - Using PubMed Single Citation Matcher


http://info.med.yale.edu/library/education/tutorials/library101/pm_scm.php#

PubMed Tutorial


http://www.library.health.ufl.edu/pubmed/pubmed2/

International Association for the Study of Pain - Pain Terminology


http://www.iasp-pain.org/terms-p.html

Chronic Pain Glossary


http://www.alternatives.com/raven/cpain/cpterms.html