By Ashley Hattle When you pick up your medication or see a pain specialist, you want the best possible care. But what...
US Pain Foundation Articles
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...
Empowered Patients, Better Outcomes: Cultivating Strong Provider Relationships
Effectively managing chronic pain goes beyond medication and therapy—it's fundamentally about the relationship between...
Seeking Out Mental Health Care: A Step-By-Step Guide
The areas of the brain that experience pain and emotion are interconnected. It's only natural—and expected—for...
Your Blueprint For Activity Modification and Pacing
Living with chronic pain can take away your sense of self. Things you once enjoyed doing may seem impossible now with...
How Will Having Better Data Actually Help Patients?
For many individuals struggling with the day-to-day difficulties of chronic pain, it can be difficult to imagine a...
Changing the Pain Equation: Solving Pain Together
Chronic pain is complex. Solving it is equally so. There are more than 51.6 million Americans living with chronic...
#SolvePainTogether Pain Awareness Month Initiative Explores Full Experience of Chronic Pain
WEST HARTFORD, CONN. — Sept. 1, 2024 — The U.S. Pain Foundation invites patients, health care providers, researchers,...
Happiness can be Medicine for the Soul
Happiness is such a joy and medicine to the soul as I navigate life with chronic pain. For me, it can range from...
Join Us As We Tell Congress #WhyPainCounts!
Today, July 23, we are urging policymakers to support the Advancing Research for Chronic Pain Act, S.2922/H.R.7164,...
52 families connect, explore, grow at 3rd Annual Pediatric Pain Warrior Family Summer Camp
This summer, children and teens living with chronic pain reached the top of a rock wall, traversed a ropes course,...