Face Pain Info Pages - Part 2b

How Do I Find a Knowledgeable Doctor to Assess and Treat My Pain? 

As in so many other things in everyday life, the best way to find somebody who knows what he or she is doing is to be referred by another customer who has had a good experience. Professional information miners can sometimes find such people by doing targeted Google searches. But I advise patients or family members who are less trained in information recovery to start with the resources of a place like Living with TN or the US Trigeminal Neuralgia Association (TNA, a/k/a "Facial Pain Association" or "FPA", since they re-branded in 2001). You can always post a discussion here, with the title "Anyone know a good pain doctor near Location X?""

The following page provides an access gateway to search for physicians known to TNA, by medical specialty: see Find a Doctor or Care Center. Also useful are recommendations of TNA Support Group leaders and members of their groups: see Contact a Support Group. Finally, you may wish to join TNA just as you have joined Living with TN, so you may post to and read one of their two patient-centered interactive BLOGs: See Facial Pain Networks.

Yet another resource may be a central repository of information on pain management clinics and practitioners.  An organization known as pain.com has assembled a list of pain management clinics in the US, which may be accessed on this page: http://pain.com/clinics/.

Likewise, lest we forget: every page on this site has a search box at the top right. You might try searching on the name of the largest city near your home. If you don't locate a doctor directly, you might still find another member who lives nearby and has searched for doctors before you. If such steps fail to generate results, then go to the comment box at the foot of this page and ask the question. Within the necessary limitations of our very active personal and professional schedules, we'll see what I can do for you.

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