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The National Pain Awareness Campaign is a cooperative effort between The National Pain Foundation (NPF) and the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM), created for pain-trained physicians to increase the general awareness of options available to manage pain; educate people in pain, their families, providers, insurers, and others about new pain management procedures, medications, and devices, as well as significant events and legislation concerning pain issues; improve patient access to reliable pain care; provide an annual forum to showcase innovations and progress in the field of pain medicine; and involve the entire medical community to support and promote pain awareness.

Even though nearly 1,000 ambassadors represent each one of the 50 states and 18 countries, more pain-trained physicians are needed to become ambassadors to reach out to their local communities and healthcare providers to help "untie the knot."



Web sites for National Pain Management and Palliative Care Associations:



American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine: www.aahpm.org

American Academy of Pain Management: www.aapainmanage.org

American Chronic Pain Association: www.theacpa.org/pu_main.asp

American Society of Pain Educators: www.paineducators.org

Medline Plus Info on Pain: www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/pain.html

National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization: www.nhpco.org/templates/1/homepage.cfm

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