The areas of the brain that experience pain and emotion are interconnected. It's only natural—and expected—for...
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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...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Makes a Major Move to Improve Pain Care
This past November, CMS announced that starting January 1, 2023, Medicare will pay physicians in all states and other...
The Unknowns of Long COVID and its Impact on Chronic Pain
In March 2020, Melissa Geraghty, PsyD—a licensed clinical health psychologist and CEO of Phoenix Rising with Dr. G who...
Acute Pain: Managing pain immediately
Even the most cautious, careful person will experience hundreds of instances of pain in their lifetime. A stubbed toe....
An interview with Cindy Steinberg: CDC’s final issued Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain
On November 3, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released its final 2022 Clinical Guideline for...
When pain doesn’t leave: The intersection of acute and chronic pain
According to the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), pain is "an unpleasant sensory and emotional...
Caregiver Burnout: A Side Effect of Chronic Pain that Can’t Be Ignored
Difficult emotions and a degree of stress are inherent in any relationship: husband-wife, parent-child, domestic...
The Comorbidity Factor: Why Some People May Be More Likely to Experience Pain–And Have Multiple Conditions
Any health condition that causes chronic pain is difficult to handle, but research increasingly shows that certain...
The Fraught Relationship Between Patients and Providers & What Can Be Done About It
From March 29 to April 12, 2022, the U.S. Pain Foundation conducted a nationwide survey to better understand the...
Taking control of your pain: How self-management strategies can help
After months of living with painful, often excruciating, symptoms and working with your medical care team to find the...