American Chronic Pain Association
Description:
In the website we found, The American Chronic Pain Association, they include an A-Z conditions list that gives a description of the specific condition you may have. It also shows what kind of resources you can access to get the help you may need.There's also a tab that shows clinical trials that support people when they're in therapy and go through chemo. The American Chronic Pain Association’s mission is to support and educate individuals about chronic pain and what they can do to help. It also helps raise awareness in the healthcare community, policymakers, and the public at large about issues of living with chronic pain.
Remarks:
This website gives good information about treatments for all the conditions they may have. They support families when their loved ones are living with chronic pain. We like that they have a list of what other kinds of chronic pain conditions, it gives us a sense that these are conditions are more severe than what people may assume.
Room for Improvement:
Although they had good resources a bit of improvement they could do is add more information on the main page and explain the help they offer. This source needs to add more information on where they retrieved their sources from, such as if they have clinical trials, we would like to know more on where they come from when it was done, and the results of that trial.
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Medline Plus
Description:
In this website we found Medline Plus, a helpful resource which provides
variation of information about chronic pain. It begins with providing a brief summary of Chronic
Pain and the different symptoms one may have and its implements on the different pain relievers they can have access to. In addition, they provide more information towards
treatments, therapies, related issues one may have, statistics, and videos and tutorial of chronic
pain. Medlineplus mission is to inform and advise people about chronic pain and what are some steps they can take to help. This is also raising positive recognition among the health care and
society towards the matter of chronic pain.
Remarks:
This web provides helpful information towards the different types of symptoms and medications one may consider. They provide helpful videos and further research if an individual would want to learn more about chronic pain. Furthermore, they also grant an individual with the helpful ways one may support a person with chronic pain.
Room of Improvements:
Even though this website provides helpful information for people to want to learn about chronic pain, there is also an improvement they can make such as providing primary sources from where the information is coming from. We would like to know where the statistics and research comes from whether its from a different article, hospital, or from a data result.
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Mayo Clinic
Discussion:
In "Sexuality and Chronic Pain", The Mayo Clinic discusses the different types of pain and the cause and effects that these can have on your body and relationship. The article provides very useful images to help readers visualize where some of these chronic pains can be felt by individuals and what steps to take if the pain increases. Because of its very descriptive guidelines, it shows different pathways you can take for immediate action and solutions.
Remarks:
This website provides constructive information on the risks and benefits of chronic pain and how it affects one's social life. It also provides some drugstore medication that can help with the side effects. In addition, it offers pain rehabilitation which is a nondrug program for managing chronic pain.
Room for Improvements:
The improvements Mayo Clinic can do is providing database and statistics of how many people get chronic pain. As well as understanding more about managing the pain.
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Silver Hill Hospital
Description :
This is a website that gives information on the Silver Hill Hospital Chronic Pain Recovery Center for adults and adolescents. This website includes centers of expertise (ex: Musculoskeletal disorders, neuropathic syndromes, chronic pain syndromes, and any other chronic pain disorders), its staff, a community page (blog posts, events, videos, and news), what
they’re about, a section to support them, and resources. This facility claims that their resources are dedicated to their patient's treatment, that all patients who go there are treated with dignity and respect, and receive the level of care their patients need whenever they may need it. Surveys show that the majority of patients who have completed the program reported a reduction in pain.
Treatment is generally covered by health insurance.
Remarks :
This website is straightforward and gives you clear information on what they intend to do for their patients. We feel as if this website is more personal rather than most websites for
chronic pain. It shows pictures of their treatment team and has full bios of the staff which gives you more of a sense who is going to be helping you throughout your treatment. We like that this facility is covered by most healthcare providers, it makes it easier for people to get their treatment and not have to worry about expenses in the long run.
Room for Improvement :
One suggestion would be having more locations for their recovery
centers. Another suggestion could be having real-life patients give their story and journey towards recovery from chronic pain, it could give us a sense of what it’s like to receive
treatment.
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Manage My Pain
Description:
In the article it explains how there's a app called “manage my pain” which help patients with chronic pain and better manage and monitor the symptoms with their physicians. It is funded by the Health Technologies Fund. It help patients identify their treatment and improve at home.
Remarks:
The website provides information on a app how to manage your chronic pain and the help to get at home. The app prevents chronic post surgical-pain. It helps prevent clinical gap
Room of Improvement:
Some Improvement they can do is give more information about chronic pain and provide more information for each topic. Also, other stuff can improve is the treatment they get and where they can go to get help.