Joshua navigates the ropes course at the Pediatric Pain Warrior Family Summer Camp‘Just a Boy Living with Chronic...
US Pain Foundation Articles
Sammie Carpenter
From ‘Reptile’ to ‘Guinea Pig’: Diving Into Pain Research By Tara Bracco On a 95-degree day in Centreville, Virginia,...
Stacey Kennedy-Conner
Stacey and her husband, Terry, at a family wedding.Inclusion Matters: Diversity in Clinical Trials Lays Groundwork for...
The NIH HEAL Initiative: Charting New Paths in Pain Research
By Stephani Sutherland Despite significant progress in pain research during the molecular biology explosion around the...
Centering the Patient Voice: Why Research Needs Lived Experience at Every Stage
By Samantha Kahn For decades, research treated people with pain as passive subjects, collecting data without letting...
The Science of Understanding Pain
By Stephani Sutherland While commonly considered a pathway to the development of new treatments, research does much...
Dive into Innovative Pain Science at 3 Leading Universities
By Kirsten Ellis Pain research is growing in leaps and bounds—with educational institutions playing a key role. Hear...
Dismantling Disparities in Pain Research
By Ashley Hattle When you pick up your medication or see a pain specialist, you want the best possible care. But what...
Innovative Pediatric Pain Research: The TRAC-Pain Study
By Mariah Z. Leach Aiden Pratt and his mom, Katie Pratt. When Aiden Pratt was in seventh grade, he fell and hurt his...
Explore Efforts to Engage Patients as Research Partners
By Ashley Hattle When research views individuals with pain as data points on a graph or medical curiosities, clinical...
Patient Registries: Communities Steering Modern Research
By Julia Daye The last decade has seen a boom in patient registries—databases that collect voluntary information from...
Measuring an Invisible Experience: Understanding Pain Scales—And Their Limitations
By Samantha Kahn Providers and researchers routinely ask patients: “On a scale from 0 to 10, how would you rate your...