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 pain scales on it.
Cincinnati Children's Hospital
International Assoc. for the Study of Pain
American Society of Anesthesiologists
American Academy of Pain Management
Pain Management (MD Anderson Cancer Center)
Pain Management (Cleveland Clinic)
Management of Chronic Low Back Pain
The Spine Institute at St. John's Hospital (Santa Monica, CA)
Hospital for Joint Diseases, Spine Center (NYC)
The Differential Diagnosis of Joint Pain
Understanding Cancer Pain (Nat'l Cancer Institute)
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (NYC)
The Children's Pain Assessment Project
Children and Pain Peer Review Committee
Palliative Care and Symptom Management
Chest Pain in Infants and 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)
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)