PainOnline is only meant to reflect my opinions. Please see your doctor for any health care concerns you have regarding Central Pain Syndrome or any other medical condition. Regard the information on PainOnline as the opinion of one individual about a condition which is poorly understood. 

As I stated above, I am not a doctor, and I cannot answer medical questions nor offer medical advice. I can tell you that there is currently no cure or satisfactory treatment for Central Pain, but this website does discuss various possible means of reducing the suffering that Central Pain patients must endure. The primary goal is to help physicians and patients to better understand Central Pain. I maintain PainOnline to help support both patients and physicians with an interest in Central Pain, and I fervently hope that research will soon find more effective ways of alleviating the pain for Central Pain victims and pain sufferers everywhere.

Unfortunately, due to the current legal situation regarding medical liability for information published on the Internet, the medical personnel who have provided information to me feel obliged to remain anonymous. 

I believe that the physicians and patients who contributed to this website are heroes for helping to compile information on this greatly misunderstood condition. Only through the effort of researchers, physicians and patients working together may we arrive at a better understanding of Central Pain Syndrome.

If you wish to help with the cause of Central Pain Syndrome, there are a couple of ways you may assist. Central Pain produces sensations that are foreign to the human experience, and the challenge of satisfactorily describing the symptoms can be an exercise in frustration similar to trying to describe the appearance of a color to a person who cannot see, or the taste of salt to a person deprived of the sense of taste. 

PainOnline is working to compile a vocabulary to adequately communicate the sensations and symptoms of Central Pain. If you are a medical professional with knowledge and experience about Central Pain Syndrome, your input would be appreciated. Also, if you are a Central Pain patient and you believe you can contribute to the vocabulary of Central Pain, please write. 

Another way you may assist is to contact your senators and representatives to support pain research whenever possible. Only through continued study can we learn more about the causes of pain, as well as more effective ways of treating pain. If each drug manufacturer would invest just 1% of their profits to research new alternatives to treating pain we would make tremendous progress beyond our current knowledge. Pain touches each of us at some point, and a better understanding of how the body and brain communicate pain, and how to control those pain messages will help everyone. Please read the The Holy Grail of Central Pain for more information on the need for additional research in this area.

A person does not have to be a hero to suffer, but a person is a hero when they work to alleviate suffering.