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Live for Today, Despite Your Chronic Pain

Life knows how to jolt you, especially when you have chronic pain. One moment can change your day, possibly weeks, or even the rest of your life. One moment you are feeling pretty decent, and then one twist, turn, jolt, or squeeze can turn that feeling on a dime. For...

Living with Chronic Pain: The Truth Behind The Smile

Despite the daily challenges of living with chronic pain, many of us choose to keep a smile on our face. To those we encounter, this can be interpreted as a sign that we are in good health and pain-free. However, maybe that smiling individual simply wants to remain...

Shape the Future of Pain Care: Take The Pain Experience Survey

Living with pain can feel isolating. But your journey matters—and your voice is needed today. By sharing your experiences (as a person with pain, parent of a child with pain, caregiver or care partner, or health care professional) through the U.S. Pain Foundation 2025...

Share What It’s Like Growing Up With Chronic Pain

Are you a kid or teen living with pain that doesn’t go away? Whether it’s CRPS, migraine, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, juvenile arthritis, or any other condition, we know that living with chronic pain when you’re young can be really hard. You might feel like no one truly...

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Crazy Sock Day & Walk a crazy-success

On Jan. 24, 2010, Melanie Dickens fell on her left foot, a fall that led to a painful condition known as Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD). In an attempt to desensitize her legs and protect them from the elements, Dickens began wearing knee-high...

Get involved with Rare Disease Day 2017

With one in ten American suffering from a rare disease, rare is more common than most believe. And many rare diseases cause chronic pain. U.S. Pain Foundation is proud to once again partner with the National Organization for Rare Diseases (NORD)...

U.S. Pain partners with #CreakyJoints on Twitter chat

On Jan. 9, the U.S. Pain Foundation collaborated with arthritis nonprofit CreakyJoints to offer a Twitter Chat focused on grassroots patient advocacy to start the new year. To learn about how to advocate, glimpse the success of previous patient...

Finding positivity in pain

When you live with chronic pain, it can be difficult to stay positive. But positivity is essential to both physical and mental health. In the month of December, U.S. Pain Foundation ambassadors Heather Gilmore and Garin Harris led the Positivity...

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