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Preparing for a New Doctor When You Live With Chronic Pain

Tips for people living with chronic pain on preparing for a first visit with a new doctor, including what information to bring and how to advocate for yourself.

The Weight We Carry: Pain, Resilience, and Recovery in Military Life

Army veteran Lexi Mitchell shares her journey with chronic pain, resilience, and the unseen cost of military life.

I am Real and Have My Life to Live with Chronic Pain. Do I have the Strength to Keep Fighting?

At 75, living with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and chronic pain, Ellen Lenox Smith reflects on resilience, vulnerability, and the strength to keep going.

Know Someone With Pain? Check in With Them Today

Recently, while I was having a rougher day with my condition, called Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, I had this unwanted and embarrassing feeling of wishing someone would think to ask how I was doing. I find that since this challenge has been going on for me for so long,...

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 Volunteers get creative with fundraising

 Volunteers get creative with fundraising

U.S. Pain Foundation offers its free programs and services thanks to donations and grants. That’s why the organization is especially grateful when volunteers step up to raise funding! The last few months have been particularly busy with a range of...

Protect pain patients’ rights in MA

Protect pain patients’ rights in MA

Yesterday, Cindy Steinberg, National Director of Policy and Advocacy, and two fellow advocates who live with pain, Debbie and Scott, testified at the Massachusetts State House at a hearing on Senate Bill 1262. The bill would amend the state's...

Pain Connection adds two new support groups

Pain Connection adds two new support groups

Pain Connection, U.S. Pain Foundation’s network of support groups, has added two in-person support groups: one in Iowa and the other in Maine. The Iowa group will have its first meeting on Dec. 19. It will be led by LaSheila Yates, who attended...

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