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Social Security Disability and Chronic Pain: Understanding the Claims Process
Learn how Social Security Disability (SSDI) works for chronic pain conditions. Understand SSA requirements, the five-step evaluation process, and how to strengthen your disability claim.
Long-Term Disability and Chronic Pain: What the Claims Process Often Misses
An educational overview of how long-term disability claims are evaluated for chronic pain.
Traveling Through Your Eyes
When chronic illness reshapes life’s plans, one advocate shares how she learned to travel the world through connection and imagination.
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.
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Seeking Out Mental Health Care: A Step-By-Step Guide
Sep 13, 2024| #SolvePainTogether, News
The areas of the brain that experience pain and emotion are interconnected. It's only natural—and expected—for someone's mental health to worsen with the physical stress of their pain condition, and for their mental health issues to impact their...
Your Blueprint For Activity Modification and Pacing
Sep 6, 2024| #SolvePainTogether, News
Living with chronic pain can take away your sense of self. Things you once enjoyed doing may seem impossible now with the ebb and flow of your pain condition. While playing with your kids at the park or going for long bicycle rides again may feel...
How Will Having Better Data Actually Help Patients?
Aug 31, 2024| #SolvePainTogether, News
Look at how data drives research, new treatments, and better health outcomes—making a tangible impact on individuals’ day-to-day lives.
Changing the Pain Equation: Solving Pain Together
Aug 30, 2024| #SolvePainTogether, News
How does changing the pain equation solve pain? This article explores the need to understand pain fully and involve all stakeholders to improve outcomes for millions of Americans.
Happiness can be Medicine for the Soul
Happiness is such a joy and medicine to the soul as I navigate life with chronic pain. For me, it can range from simple things like hearing and watching the birds visiting my feeders to starting my day, feeling as healthy as possible, content, and...
Join Us As We Tell Congress #WhyPainCounts!
Jul 22, 2024| Advocacy, Blog, News
Today, July 23, we are urging policymakers to support the Advancing Research for Chronic Pain Act, S.2922/H.R.7164, which is one of only a few bills ever introduced in Congress specifically for people with pain. At the U.S. Pain Foundation, we...
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