Resources

• Pain Connection Emerges from Personal Struggle with Pain Pain Community News, Fall 2007, page 3.
  
  
• Potomac Resident Selected as Pain Awareness Leader by the American Pain Foundation., Gazette.Net, Maryland Community Newspapers Online, November 14, 2007.
  
  
• Make a Difference, on Montgomery County Cable Channel 6.
  Pain Connection is highlighted on the show on May 27, 2006 at 3:30 PM with Gwenn Herman, Director and Geoffrey Manifold, Board Member. Watch the show to learn about volunteer opportunities providing both direct services to residents and support services in the Housing Opportunities Commission offices. The show will be aired several times a day all week long or you can watch the video online. See the weekly schedule.
  
  
• "Groups help one cope with untreatable pain" by Daniel Groner, published in the Senior Beacon, Washington, D.C. edition, July 2006.
  
  
• Gwenn Herman, the Founder and Director of Pain Connection, spoke at the Maryland Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers Annual Conference, March 31, 2005. Her topic: "Making the Invisible Visible: Treating Chronic Pain".
  
  
• Stopping The Hurt by January W. Payne, The Washington Post, Tuesday, January 4, 2005.
  Gwenn Herman knows chronic pain -- the regular backaches, the stiffness and freezing of her neck after her 1995 car accident, the pain that didn't respond, or responded inconsistently, to prescription and nonprescription painkillers. That's why she learned, long before last month's rash of safety alerts about three commonly used pain medications, to explore alternative treatments like meditation, guided imagery and breathing exercises.
  
  
• 2004 Psychotherapy Networker Symposium. Workshop #714-512 "Invisible Injury-Treating Chronic Pain", Presented by Gwenn Herman and Cat McClannan, order a cassette or CD from www.playbacknow.com.
  
  
• Greenbelt support group a salve for sufferers by Laura C. Jackson, Special to The Gazette Sept. 16, 2004
  Gwenn Herman used to work full time, play racquetball and lead an active social life with her children. All that changed after a car accident.
  
  
• Herman helps those living in pain by Monica Wraga Soladay, The Gazette March 10, 2004
  
  
• Chronic pain group starts in Greenbelt The Gazette June 5, 2003
  
  
• What Hit Me? How families are affected by a parent's chronic pain by Gwenn Herman, published in Kidspeace Healing Magazine.
  
  
• Medical definitions of the various doctors/specialists and tests/procedures
  
  
• Amazon.com Online Bookstore Pain Connection gets a small percentage of the purchase price of anything you buy through this link.

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• Alternative Medicine Foundation
• American Academy of Pain Management
• American Cancer Society
• American Chronic Pain Association
• American Pain Foundation
• Arthritis Foundation
• Centerwatch Clinical Listings
• Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation
• The Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome
• Combined Health Information Database(CHID)
• Community-support.com
• Doctors Guide to the Internet
• Dr. Koop's Community
• Fibromyalgia
• General diseases/conditions
• Healthfinder
• Howard County Office on Aging "Living Well…Take Charge of your Health” Workshops
• Information on Checking Drug Interaction with Medications by Medscape
• Insight Meditation Community of Washington
• Institute Fulfillment Center (Free and low cost prescription medications information)
• Massachusetts General Hospital
• Massuage Associates
• Mayday Pain Project
• Medsupport
• Montgomery County (MD) Government Disability Website, Department of Health and Human Services
• National Institute of Arthritis and Musculosketal and Skin Diseases
• National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
• National Library of Medicine
• National Vulvodynia Association
• National Women's Health
• Northern Virginia Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Fibromyalgia Support Group (NoVA CFS/FMS Support Group)
  health.groups.yahoo.com/group/CFSupport/ (E-mail list)
• The On-line Medical Dictionary(Cancer)
• Pain.com
• Physicians Disability Services
• Refelx Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Association
• Spine-heath.com
• Trigeminal Neuralgia Association
• University of Iowa Virtual Hospital
• The Wellness Community
• Worldwide Congress On Pain

• Relaxation Response, by Herbert Benson, M.D. and M. Klipper
• How to Meditate: A Guide to Self Discovery, by Dr. Lawrence Le Shan
• Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living, by the 14th Dalai Lama and H. Cutler
• Healing Anger: The Power of Patience from a Buddhist Point of View, by the 14th Dalai Lama and Geshe Thupten Jimpa.
• Energy Medicine, by Donna Eden and David Feinstein
• Conquest of Mind, by Eknath Easwaran
• The Healing Power of Mind, by Tulku Thondup
• Electrolytes and the Spark of Life: The Key to Longevity and Quality of Life, by Gillian Marthew
• Pain Free: A Revolutionary Method for Stopping Chronic Pain, by Pete Egoscue and Roger Gittines
• The History of Pain, by Roselyne Rey
• The Origin of Illness, by Norberto R. Keppe
• The Wisdom of No Escape and the Path of Loving Kindness, by Pema Chödrön
• Macroelements, Water, and Electrolytes in Sports Nutrition, by Judy Anne Driskell, Ira Wolinsky (Editor)
• Fibromyalgia & Chronic Myofascial Pain Syndrome ­ A Survival Manual, by Devin Starlanyl, M.D. & Mary Ellen Copeland, MS, MA
• The Chronic Pain Control Workbook, 2nd edition, by Ellen Mohr Catalano, MA, & Kimeron N. Hardin

• “Canyon Trilogy: Native American Flute Music” by R. Carlos Nakai
• “Quiet Heart/Spirit Wind” by Richard Warner
• “In the Presence of Angels” by Dik Darnell
• “The Sounds of Source” by Synchronicity/Master Charles
• “Soma: An Experience in Psychoacoustic Healing” by Tom Kenyon, MA
• “Higher” by Metamusic/Monroe Institute
• “DreamCatcher” by Kevin Locke

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