Alternate practices

• American Medical Association - Provides a brief discussion of alternate health choices.
• On Health - Offers a range of health-care topics including acupuncture, chiropractic medicine, meditation, mind-body medicine, prayer and support groups.

Behavioral and psychological

• American Medical Association - Describes how to recognize depression and offers suggestions for managing it for yourself or someone you know.
• Emotional Health - Provided by the Columbia University Health Education Department, this question-and-answer format covers a range of emotional health topics.

Back pain

• North American Spine Society - This multidisciplinary organization advances high-quality spine care through education, research and advocacy.
• Spine-health - This site is a comprehensive resource for lower back pain.
• Spineuniverse - This collaborative effort of medical professionals serves those suffering from back pain.
• Spondylitis Association - This site provides information about support and research.

Chronic pain

• American Chronic Pain Association - This national campaign is designed to increase awareness of chronic pain and pain management.
• American Pain Foundation - The foundation's site provides Information about treatment and advocacy.
• American Pain Society - This site provides information about using opioids to treat chronic pain. It lists patient-centered support groups for a range of painful conditions.
• Rest Ministries - This site is provided by a Christian organization serving people who live with pain. It has a section on using humor for pain management.

Diagnostic tests

• Imaginis - Provides information about computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. It also provides information about a range of women's health topics.

Diet and nutrition

• Go Ask Alice! - This site offers a range of general health topics in a question-and-answer format.

General medical information

• American Medical Association - This patient-education site covers nearly every health-care concern.
• British Medical Journal - This offers information on a range of topics for medical professionals and the public.
• C. Everette Koop Institute - This institute seeks to promote health through physician, patient and community education.
• Med Help International - This provides patient information on a range of illnesses, and it offers a patient-support network.
• Online Health Record, Medical News and Information - This covers a range of current medical information. It is updated daily.
• U.S. National Library of Medicine - This health-care encyclopedia provides authoritative consumer health information.

Headaches

• American Council for Headache Information - This provides a thorough discussion of migraine and other headaches.

Neurological

• American Brain Tumor Association - This site provides information about resources and research.
• National Brain Injury Association - This comprehensive site is for anyone suffering from brain injury. Information is available for patients, families and health-care professionals. It lists organizations, resources and chat rooms, and it discusses prevention and legal considerations.
• National Stroke Association - This association is dedicated to educating stroke survivors, families, health-care professionals. Topics include prevention, medical care, research and rehabilitation.
• Neuroguide - This site contains an index of neuroscience resources available on the Internet including neurobiology, neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatry, psychology, cognitive science sites and human neurological diseases.
• Neurosurgery On-call - This site discusses disorders of the brain, spine and nerves. It hosts a forum for a topic of the month.

Physical medicine and rehabilitation

• American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation - This site is provided by the national medical society of specialists in physical medicine and rehabilitation. 

Spinal injections

• International Spine Injection Society - This site describes how and why injections are performed. It provides illustrations of how procedures are done.

Spine surgery
Besides those listed here, many sites above have information about spine surgery.

• Spine-health - Provides explanations of spine surgery and comprehensive information about spinal conditions and other treatments.
• Swarm Interactive - This Web-development site has animated videos for many operations.

Substance abuse

• American Medical Association - This site addresses who is likely to abuse substances and why. It offers suggestions about what to do if you or someone you care about has a problem with addictive substances.
• Go Ask Alice - This site is in a question-and-answer format. It is offered by the Columbia University Health Education Program.