DR. PATRICIA A. FARRELL

the need to know has never been greater

MY BOOKS

Multiple sclerosis is a
neurologic disorder associated with the immune system and many persons with MS as well as healthcare professionals don’t have an adequate understanding of how it affects a person’s cognitive processes, mood and ability to interact appropriately. This book describes what it does to the nervous system and outlines exciting new research in terms of memory and exercise. It not only provides information from professionals in the field, but interviews with persons with MS where they tell of their challenges and their unique solutions to some of the problems brought on by the disorder. The book also contains numerous references and resources as well as self-help information. http://amzn.to/brxTEC (Amazon) and http://bit.ly/q9HXSR (Barnes & Noble).

Farrell paperback cover

When you’re feeling like your life needs to be improved in some way, or things just aren’t going as you had planned, the first place you need to look is inward. Perhaps you need a therapist or maybe not. This book is intended to help you see what you can do for yourself and to provide some assistance should you decide you want to go into therapy. http://amzn.to/ht4J10 (Amazon),

CHINESE EDITION OF MY BOOK

One of the Chinese editions of How to Be Your Own Therapist (published in Taiwan).

http://bit.ly/ifwKuC

PAIN

Pain, especially chronic pain, is a topic of great controversy in how it is evaluated and how it is treated. Should we use addictive medications, should we believe that people are in pain and how do we know that someone isn't just "medication-seeking?" There are no easy answers and one of the most important things anyone who is in pain can do is to educate yourself about all the treatments and the current research. Here's a page with a number of the (click here) pain scales on it.

Fraud Admitted in Pain Research Studies
Medline Plus
American Pain Society
American Pain Foundation
Neuropathic pain
Abdominal pain
Pain (Merck Manual)
Pain research
Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Hospicenet
Managing chronic pain
National Cancer Institute
Managing arthritis pain
International Assoc. for the Study of Pain
WebMD Pain Management Center
American Society of Anesthesiologists
ASA Patient Information
American Academy of Pain Management
Pain Management (MD Anderson Cancer Center)
Pain Management (Cleveland Clinic)
Back Pain Information
Management of Chronic Low Back Pain
The Spine Institute at St. John's Hospital (Santa Monica, CA)
Hospital for Joint Diseases, Spine Center (NYC)
Lupus Foundation of America
The Differential Diagnosis of Joint Pain
Joint Pain (Univ. of MD)
Understanding Cancer Pain (Nat'l Cancer Institute)
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (NYC)
Sports Injury Warning Signs

CHILDREN AND PAIN
Helping Children With Pain
Pediatric Pain
The Children's Pain Assessment Project
Abdominal Pain in Children
Pediatric Chronic Pain
Children and Pain (NIH)
Children and Pain Peer Review Committee
Palliative Care and Symptom Management
Chest Pain in Infants and Children
Back Pain in Children
Cancer Pain Management in Children
Pain in Children (Cleveland Clinic)
Sydney's Children's Hospital Pain Research Unit
Imagery Reduces Children's Post-Operative Pain
Pain and Your Child or Teen (Univ. of Michigan Health System)
Knee Pain
Chest Pain in Kids (Cincinnati Children's)
National Children's Pain Center
Backpacks and Back Pain in Children
Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain in Children
10 Ways to Ease Pain in Children (Hosp. for Sick Kids, Toronto)
Giving a Voice to Cognitively Impaired Children