Resources/Links/Books/CD'S

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• Alternative Medicine Foundation
• American Academy of Pain Management
• American Cancer Society
• 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
• 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 Association of Social Worker's
• 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
• Pain Connection and U.S. Pain Foundation, Inc.
• Physicians Disability Services
• Refelx Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Association
• Spine-heath.com
• Trigeminal Neuralgia Association
• University of Iowa Virtual Hospital
• Worldwide Congress On Pain

Books:

• Making the Invisible Visible: Chronic Pain Manual for Health Care Providers, by Gwenn Herman, LCSW-C, DCSW and Mary French, RN, MSW, LCSW-C
• 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

Relaxation/Meditation CD’s:

• “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

    - Gwenn Herman does not endorse any of the above links, she is supplying them for informational purposes only -