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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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Chronic pain approved as qualifying condition for cannabis in Connecticut
We are very pleased to share that Connecticut has approved chronic pain as a qualifying condition to be able to legally access medical cannabis. This means that no matter what causes your pain, whether it is lupus or osteoarthritis, you are...
Building Your Toolbox holds second event, announces topic line-up
Jun 3, 2020| News
"Building Your Toolbox," an interactive videoconference series, hosted its second event last night. The topic was "self-hypnosis," with speaker Helen Hess, RN, NP, CHT, a certified hypnotist and hypnotherapist since 2005. A total 45 pain warriors...
Virtual Advocacy Training Series launches
On May 26, U.S. Pain Foundation launched its first-ever Virtual Advocacy Training Series for its top pain advocates. Typically, the organization hosts advocacy trainings as in-person weekend summits, but because of the COVID-19 situation, it...
Pediatric Virtual Retreat focuses on education, family–and fun
Jun 3, 2020| News
More than 250 kids from 33 states and four countries have registered for the Pediatric Virtual Retreat. The program is offering a series of free online activities tailored to kids with pain and their loved ones over the next several months. Events...
Reminder: CDC docket deadline nearing
The June 16 deadline is rapidly approaching for submitting comments to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) official docket on pain. As covered in our May newsletter, the CDC opened this docket on April 17, requesting patients...
Join us Wednesday for “What Cluster Patients Want You to Know” in honor of #MHAM
Jun 1, 2020| News
In honor of Migraine and Headache Awareness Month, join us Wednesday for an honest conversation about cluster headache, the most painful disease known to man. Author Ashley Hattle and INvisible Project participant Joe McKay will share their...
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