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Boundaries Without Guilt: Learning to Say No When You Live With Chronic Pain

Learning to say no with chronic pain can be difficult. Alina Savulescu shares how setting boundaries can protect your energy, relationships, and well-being.

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Different Diagnoses, Same Struggles: 15 Experiences People With Pain Share

Different diagnoses can bring many of the same struggles. Explore 15 shared experiences that connect people living with chronic pain.

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7 Voices. 7 Ages. 1 Message.

Seven voices, ages 10 to 77, share how chronic pain shapes different stages of life and what they wish others better understood.

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This Pain Awareness Month, Let’s Change Pain

This Pain Awareness Month, join #OneVoiceForPain as we unite all ages, diagnoses, and stories to build greater understanding, better care, and change.

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Pain patient rights bill introduced in MA

Jan 31, 2017|

Pain patients oftentimes encounter obstacles to care, whether because of a clinician who doesn’t take their pain seriously, difficulty accessing the best treatment options due to high costs, or other reasons. To better protect pain patients’...

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CMS publishes new strategy to combat opioid misuse

Jan 31, 2017|

On Jan. 5, the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) published a new, 30-page proposal for curbing opioid abuse: “Opioid Misuse Strategy 2016.” Among the more controversial suggestions are incentivizing pharmacists to report clinicians...

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Crazy Sock Day & Walk a crazy-success

Jan 30, 2017|

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...

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Get involved with Rare Disease Day 2017

Jan 30, 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)...

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