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7 Sources of Hope: What Keeps People With Pain Moving Forward
What gives people with chronic pain hope? Hear directly from people with pain about the support, purpose, progress, and everyday moments that keep them moving forward.
8 Ways Better Policy Could Improve Life With Chronic Pain
Cindy Steinberg examines eight ways better pain policy can strengthen research, expand access to care, address inequities, and center lived experience.
It’s Just Thursday
A mother and daughter move through an ordinary Thursday while both navigating pain, fatigue, school, work, and the small moments that keep the day moving.
When Pain Walks Into the Room
Chronic pain visits can break down in the gap between what a patient needs to say and what a clinician has time to hear. Tom Norris explores how both can communicate more clearly, build trust, and leave with a shared plan.
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7 Myths and Facts About DPN
Nov 13, 2024| KNOWvember 2024, News
Myth: Diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) is only a concern for people with long-term diabetes. Fact: DPN can develop in individuals with both type 1 and type 2 diabetes, regardless of how long they’ve had the condition. It can also start to show...
Take Steps Today: Preventing, Detecting, and Slowing the Progression of DPN
Nov 6, 2024| KNOWvember 2024, News
Being diagnosed with diabetes raises a variety of concerns, but one many people aren’t aware of is this: Up to half of those with this metabolic disorder will go on to develop another condition in their lifetime, a progressive nerve disease called...
The Light at the End of the Tunnel: Finding Hope Through Volunteering
Oct 30, 2024| News
This is the first installment of a three-part series leading up to the exciting re-launch of the U.S. Pain Foundation Volunteer Network. You can read the second part here. Imagine driving with the top down on a warm, summer day with your favorite...
Get to #knowDPN this KNOWvember
Oct 30, 2024| KNOWvember 2024, News
The complications associated with diabetes are numerous—and overwhelming. But in the flurry of managing diabetes and its potential comorbidities and symptoms, one is often forgotten: nerve damage and pain. Diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN),...
Living with Diabetic Nerve Pain or DPN? We Want to Hear From You!
Oct 3, 2024| News
In preparation for its KNOWvember campaign—a monthlong educational and awareness campaign held in November that in 2024 will focus on diabetic peripheral neuropathy—the U.S. Pain Foundation is calling on pain warriors to help shine a light on the...
New Research, New Findings, New Hope: Insights from the IASP 2024 World Congress in Amsterdam
Oct 1, 2024| News
Researchers, clinicians, and advocates from around the world gathered to explore new frontiers in chronic pain management at the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) 2024 World Congress, which took place in Amsterdam in August....
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