N.C. Industrial Commission Webmaster Robert W. McDowell last updated this select list of Medical and Health Web Sites on
5 February 2009. Please e-mail any comments and suggestions for additional sites to:
Robert.McDowell@ic.nc.gov
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Carpal Tunnel, Repetitive Stress, and Wrist Pain Injuries
- IMAK Products Corporation—http://www.imakproducts.com/
IMAK makes “ergonomic products that help relieve pain associated with
carpal tunnel syndrome, wrist pain, and other repetitive strain injuries.”
-
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (Cornell
University)—http://explorations.scicentr.org/textonly/hedge/hedge.chunk1.html
“Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) is a common type of cumulative trauma
disorder, or repetitive strain injury, that affects office professionals who
work at computer keyboards on a daily basis. CTS involves swelling of the
tendons that pass through a narrow passageway in the wrist (the carpal tunnel)
and control the flexing motion of the fingers. The tendons share this narrow
channel with the median nerve, which passes impulses back and forth to the first
three fingers and the lower portion of the thumb.”
- Medical
Multimedia Group, LLC—http://www.medicalmultimediagroup.com/
“Medical Multimedia Group, Inc. specializes in translating complex medical concepts into understandable interactive teaching software and Internet/Intranet development.” This site includes online guides to back, shoulder, knee, foot, and ankle problems, as well as cumulative trauma disorders and artificial joint replacement.
- NIOSH
Safety and Health Topic: Ergonomics and Musculoskeletal Disorders—http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/ctsfs.html
Information on ergonomics and musculoskeletal disorders from the
National Institute for Occupational Safety
and Health (NIOSH).
- Repetitive Strain Injury
UK Mailing List—http://www.rsi-uk.org.uk/
“[Repetitive Strain Injury]
is used as an umbrella term to refer to various kinds of work-related
musculoskeletal injuries - for instance, carpal tunnel syndrome, tendonitis,
tenosynovitis, bursitis, epicondylitis, and others. Such injuries are also known
as Cumulative Trauma Disorders (CTDs),
Work-Related Upper Limb Disorders (WRULDs),
and Occupational Overuse Injuries. Doctors and other healthcare
professionals tend not to use these shorthand terms, but instead refer to the
problems by their separate and specific names, e.g. tendonitis.”
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Repetitive Stress Injury Information—http://www.cs.fsu.edu/reference/employees/carpal.html
This Florida State University Department of Computer Science web page includes links to
three other Repetitive Stress Injury web pages.
- Typing Injuries Frequently
Asked Questions—Answered—http://www.tifaq.com/
“Typing Injuries Frequently Asked Questions is here to provide
valuable information to employers, health professionals, educators, persons at
risk of typing injuries, and more. Anyone who wants to learn more about
repetitive strain injuries (RSI’s)—what they are, how to deal with them, how to
prevent them, etc.—will find a wealth of information here at Typing Injuries
Frequently Asked Questions.”
- University of
Virginia Office of Environmental Health & Safety
—http://keats.admin.virginia.edu/
This web site contains a
wealth of information on environmental health and safety issues.
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Chemotherapy
http://www.chemotherapy.com/
Chemotherapy.com is a “Resource site on chemotherapy treatment
information for cancer patients and caregivers. Find helpful information on
questions to ask your doctor, types of chemotherapy treatment available,
resources and organizations, tips on how to maintain your cancer information, as
well as insurance and tax issue tips.”
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Chronic Pain
- American Chronic Pain
Association—http://www.theacpa.org/
“The American Chronic Pain Association was founded in 1980 by Penney
Cowan in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania . After many years of living with chronic
pain, Penney had taken part in the pain management program at the Cleveland
Clinic and was eager to maintain the skills she had learned there when she
returned to her daily life.”
- ClinicalTrials.gov—http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/
“ClinicalTrials.gov provides regularly updated information about
federally and privately supported clinical research in human volunteers. ClinicalTrials.gov gives you information about a trial’s purpose, who may
participate, locations, and phone numbers for more details. The information
provided on ClinicalTrials.gov should be used in conjunction with advice from
health care professionals.”
-
MedlinePlus®: Health Information
from the National Library of Medicine—http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
This site is a service of the
U.S. National Library of Medicine and the
National Institutes of Health.
- The National Pain
Foundation—http://www.painconnection.com/
“An on-line educational and support
community for persons in pain, their families and physicians. Your source for
treatment options and pain information that is peer reviewed by leading pain
specialists.”
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Headaches
- American Headache Society (ACHE)—http://www.achenet.org/
“[The American Headache Society Committee for Headache Education] is
a national non-profit patient/physician partnership providing support for
sufferers of chronic headache while working to educate the public about this
terribly misunderstood illness. Founded in 1990, ACHE reaches out to thousands
of head pain sufferers with education and support activities, such as this
website.”
- National Headache Foundation
(NHF)—http://www.headaches.org/
“More than 45 million Americans suffer from chronic, recurring headaches. Although we know much about the different types of headache, ongoing research continues to reveal new drugs, new diagnostic techniques and better ways to treat headache. By becoming an NHF member, you gain access to the latest, up-to-date information on managing your headaches and join nearly 20,000 other headache sufferers who are committed to making the NHF
the #1 source for headache help.”
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Medical Links Only
- CDC Information Sources—http://www.cdc.gov/other.htm
Compiled by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this list includes key government agencies, plus links to state and local health departments.
- Hardin MD:
Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources—http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/
“’We list the sites that list the sites’ ... Hardin Meta Directory pages have pointers to the most complete and frequently cited lists in each subject. For subjects not yet included in Hardin MD, go directly to the comprehensive index sites
that are included in Meta Directory pages.”
- Injury-Related Websites—http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/injweb/websites.htm
The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, part of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, compiled this extensive list of sites.
- Medical Matrix, LLC:
Guide to Internet Clinical Medicine Resources—http://www.medmatrix.org/
This site lists “selected, ranked, peer-reviewed, annotated,
continuously updated, full-text patient care resources.”
- MedWeb
Community—http://www.medweb.emory.edu/SPT--Home.php
“MedWeb
is a catalog of biomedical and health related web sites maintained by the staff
of the Robert W. Woodruff Health
Sciences Center Library at Emory University.
The brain child of Steve Foote, MedWeb evolved to include a number of editors
with the original database created by Andy Koglenik.”
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Medical Products
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Hospitals and HMOs
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Travel
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Medicine-Specific Search Engines
- Healthatoz: The Search Engine for Health and Medicine—http://www.Healthatoz.com/
Healthatoz lists thousands of sites in dozens of subject areas.
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OmniMedicalSearch.com—http://www.omnimedicalsearch.com/
“The most comprehensive medical search platform on the internet
focusing on results from authoritative sources. OmniMedicalSearch.com offers
five main search options, as well as a doctor directory, information on various
conditions and diseases, and other serendipitous medical resource tools. There
is no cost, registration, or obligation for using OmniMedicalSearch.com. Custom
search tabs offer authoritative results for both the general public and
healthcare professionals (MedPro search option).”
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Sleep Disorders
- Sleep Disorders Guide—http://www.sleepdisordersguide.com/
This is a comprehensive information guide to sleep disorders. It includes descriptions of sleep disorders; their symptoms;
their causes; and their treatments of various sleep disorders, such as sleep apnea, insomnia, snoring, restless legs, and narcolepsy.
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