The chronic pain medical articles have been assembled by TMT with information derived from reputable medical sources such as the US Government's National Institutes of Health. They are current as of the website versions of January 2005 or later (you can check the websites to see if there is a more recent version). The articles are in PDF files that are viewed with Adobe® Acrobat Reader®. To download the latest version of this free software program (if it is not already installed on your computer), click Download Acrobat Reader. To see one of the articles below, click the link with your computer mouse. You can read it in your browser, print it, or save it to your hard disk.
              

CHRONIC PAIN ARTICLES

The following links provide medical articles on chronic pain in different parts of the body. If you wish to answer the Chronic Pain Survey, click the "Pain Survey" button above. Our computer software will then review your pain locations and symptoms and send you an email with the articles that should be most useful to you. To read an article below, click the link with your computer mouse.

Abdominal Pain    Angina Pain    Ankle Pain    Chest Pain    Chronic Pain    Complex Regional Pain Syndrome    Diverticulitis Pain    Elbow Pain    Foot Pain    Gallstone Pain    Hand Pain    Headache1    Headache2    Heartburn    Hemorrhoids    Hip Pain    Irritable Bowel Syndrome    Indigestion    Knee Pain    Leg Pain    Lower Back Pain    Neck Pain    Peripheral Neuropathy Pain    Pinched Nerve Pain    Premenstrual Syndrome    Sciatica Pain    Shingles Pain    Shoulder Pain    Sinusitis Pain    Sports Injury Pain    TMJ (Temporo-Mandibular) Pain    Toothache Pain    Trigeminal Neuralgia Pain    Ulcerative Colitis Pain    Upper Back Pain    Urinary Pain    Whiplash Pain    Widespread Pain    Wrist Pain

INTERNET LINKS

The links below will take you directly to a reputable medical Internet site. Click (with your computer mouse) on any of the colored pain locations in the table below. This will open a new window taking you to a reputable Internet site (for example, a site run by the National Institutes of Health of the US government, or by a major medical school) that gives you information about some types of pain that occur in that location.

To get back from that site to the www.masterdocs.com Web site, close the new window and you will see this Diagnoses page. Occasionally, one of these outside sites may be having a temporary problem and you won't see the medical information - if so, just try the site again later.                 

When you answer the pain survey you will: Click the "Accept" button on the Informed Consent Form page (to confirm that you have read and accept the conditions for the study, and meet the requirements for participation). Complete the survey forms, including a drawing page where you can draw your pain areas on the human body figure. Click the "Continue" button after each form. On the last form, mouse-click the “Submit” button to send the data to the TMT computer server. For most computer systems, you move from field to field in the forms by either clicking with the mouse inside the field or hitting the “Tab” button on your keyboard. When we receive the data, the computer analyzes your responses and automatically prepares a Personal Pain Report especially for you. The computer then sends an email to the email address you gave us. Clicking on the colored link in the email downloads your Personal Pain Report (on TMT’s server computer) to your own computer. If you happen to lose your Personal Pain Report, you can always download it again by clicking again on this link.

You may find it useful to retain your individualized Personal Pain Report for your records. You may also wish to take it with you on your next visit to your doctor. Some doctors welcome emails from their patients describing the symptoms they are experiencing. If your doctor welcomes emails, you can select the “EMAIL THIS REPORT TO” option we give you (which emails the Personal Pain Report to you), and then “forward” the Personal Pain Report email to your doctor.

Remember that we do not provide medical advice on your pain. Please also realize that the possible diagnoses provided may not include the cause of your own pain, and that a reliable diagnosis can only be obtained by contacting your own health care provider.

Thank you for your interest and participation in this study. We hope that your Personal Pain Report will be useful to you.