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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.
9 Lessons We’ve Learned By Listening to Thousands of People With Pain
What can we learn by truly listening to people living with pain? 9 lessons from thousands of people living with pain reveal what matters most in pain care, support, access, research, and lived experience.
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Untrained, Unprepared, Unheard: The Education Crisis in Pain Caregiving
Sep 17, 2025| #ThisIsPain, News
Millions of unpaid caregivers for people with chronic pain are doing complex medical work without training or support. Survey data from the U.S. Pain Foundation exposes the urgent need for resources, education, and systemic change.
More Than Tired: The Overlooked Role of Sleep in Pediatric Pain
Sep 11, 2025| #ThisIsPain, News
Sleep problems are not just side effects of pediatric pain—they are central to it. Discover how poor, disrupted, or excessive sleep worsens chronic pain in children, affects school and family life, and why better sleep must be a focus of pediatric pain care.
Unmasking Pain: Because Pain is More Than a Chart. It’s a Life.
Aug 31, 2025| #ThisIsPain, News
This Pain Awareness Month, we’re unmasking the hidden realities of chronic pain—beyond charts and scales—to honor lived experience and demand change.
Rate It to Regain It: A Naming Trick for Navigating Chronic Pain and Emotions
When you live with chronic pain or illness, coping isn’t just a strategy—it’s a survival skill. Whether you’re flaring on the couch or masking your pain in a doctor’s office (again), you’re constantly reaching for tools that help you make sense of...
Rising Above Setbacks: Living with Chronic Pain
Living with chronic pain involves moments that can suddenly throw you backward. I don’t know about you, but the initial shock of realizing that things are regressing can send my emotions into turmoil. I find myself wondering why—despite all the...
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...
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