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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...

Treading Water with Chronic Pain in a Sea of Uncertainty

Living life with chronic pain is a constant challenge. I am sure I am not alone in experiencing many moments of feeling overwhelmed, trying to keep my head above the tumultuous water in the sea of uncertainty. We can either allow ourselves to sink into this churning...

Aging With Pain Brings New Vulnerabilities

Many of us try not to imagine ourselves hitting the later years of life. Whether we dream and plan for a life far down the road, or we still feel young and like the whole world is in front of us, age still creeps up on us, even if we don’t open our eyes to accept it....

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Pain Warrior of the Month: Charity Schussler

Pain Warrior of the Month: Charity Schussler

Mar 1, 2020| News, PWOTM

Age: 41 Location: Anderson, Indiana U.S. Pain Foundation role: Ambassador since 2019 Health conditions: Reflex sympathetic dystrophy, Crohn's disease, rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, degenerative disc disease, spondylosis, osteopenia, optic...

The National Academy of Medicine wants to hear from people with pain

The National Academy of Medicine wants to hear from people with pain

Feb 25, 2020| News

As part of its "Action Collaborative on Countering the U.S. Opioid Epidemic," the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) recently hosted a listening session to better understand the experiences of people living with chronic, non-cancer pain, including...

Pediatric fundraiser celebrates five years, $110,000 raised

Pediatric fundraiser celebrates five years, $110,000 raised

Feb 21, 2020| News, Press release

Glen Gardner, NJ (Feb. 21, 2020)—Last night, 17-year-old Tyler Cashman of Tewksbury held his annual fundraiser for children with chronic pain, bringing the total raised in five years to more than $110,000. Inspired by his mom, who lives with...

Pain care state bills to follow in 2020

Pain care state bills to follow in 2020

Feb 18, 2020| Advocacy, News

Join U.S. Pain Foundation's Advocacy Network on Wednesday, Feb. 19, at noon EST for this free presentation for volunteers, featuring Kentucky Representative Cherlynn Stevenson. Attendees will learn about the types of state-based policies being...

NY: Two exciting bills would help chronic pain community

NY: Two exciting bills would help chronic pain community

Feb 11, 2020| Advocacy, News

Over the years, we've heard many stories from pain warriors who wished their health care providers knew more about chronic pain and ways to manage it. This year, New York lawmakers are taking significant steps to benefit the chronic pain community...

KY: Bill that would make health plans cover chronic pain treatments yet to be heard

KY: Bill that would make health plans cover chronic pain treatments yet to be heard

Feb 4, 2020| News

There's a proposed piece of legislation in Kentucky that would require health plans to cover certain therapies used to treat chronic pain. As currently written, House Bill 198 would allow pain warriors to have access to receive 20 visits for pain...

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