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Medline Plus: Numbness and Tingling - Overview of this condition.
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Diabetic Neuropathy Treatment - Nutritional treatments and subject bibliography.
Pediatric Pain - Science Helping Children - Professional, research, and self help resources in the field of pain in infants, children, and adolescents.
Pain.com - Extensive information about pain and its treatment.
Partners Against Pain - Resource for pain management offering free materials, tips, articles, information for patients and caregivers, and links to support groups.
Mayday UPPP - Provides awareness and information about the treatment of pain. Annotated links to related sites.
Pruritus Ani - Describes this condition of anal itching, and treatment.
Invisible Itches: Insect and Non-Insect Causes - Article about biting arthropods and other causes of irritations of unknown origin.
NCI: Pruritus - Includes ways to relieve itching and types of cancer and treatments that may increase the risk of developing pruritus.
Pruritus - Medical overview from the Canadian Encyclopedia of Dermatology.

Thigmomorphogenesis - Thigmomorphogenesis is the response by plants to mechanical sensation (touch) by altering their growth patterns. In the wild, these patterns can be evinced by wind, raindrops, and rubbing by passing animals.
Somatosensory system - Somatic sensation consists of the various sensory receptors that trigger the experiences labelled as touch or pressure, temperature (warm or cold), pain (including itch and tickle), and the sensations of muscle movement and joint position including posture, movement, and facial expression (collectively also called proprioception).