This summer, children and teens living with chronic pain reached the top of a rock wall, traversed a ropes course,...
Blog Articles
My Story: Why I Am So Passionate About Alternative Pain Treatments
From Young, Healthy, and Active to Disabled In 1977, I was 25 years old and attending graduate school, working towards...
Adjusting to Life with Chronic Pain
My heart breaks when I meet a young person sharing that they are confronting life with chronic pain. At the age of 74,...
Can We Be Kinder After the Pandemic?
By Ellen Lenox Smith After waiting months to have life open up again and be able to be with people, I am starting to...
The Barking Cat: Being a Father with Cluster Headaches
By Mark Odlum My 13-month-old daughter is “arfing” at the barking cat toy her aunt Alyssa gave her. She just learned...
Use Your Voice: Advocating
By: Ellen Lenox Smith Do you have an issue that you are concerned about? Do you see where change needs to be made? Are...
New Pain Connection Group for Veterans and Active Military Launching with Specialized Support
By: Janet Jay The U.S. Pain Foundation is pleased to announce its virtual support group connecting veterans and active...
My son suffered in pain for years: The signs I missed and the ones I saw
By: Brandy Garcia My son was 4-years old the first time he said, “Mom I have a headache.” At the time I did not think...
The emotional trauma from enduring the pandemic
By: Ellen Lenox Smith My family is so lucky, we are all here today! My husband and I are fully vaccinated, and our...
A letter to healthcare providers: Help complicated patients
By: Ellen Lenox Smith I would like to make some suggestions for the doctors and nurses out there that are frequently...
Life after vaccination
By: Ellen Lenox Smith As my husband and I get closer to receiving our second of our two-dose COVID-19 vaccination, we...
Let’s reconsider how we evaluate nontraditional therapies
By: Malcolm Herman The National Institutes of Health is comprised of 27 institutes, all of which deal with specific...