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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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Queens Knocks Out RSD shines despite rain

Rainy skies couldn't stop J.H.S. 194 William Carr School in Queens, New York, from uniting to walk a mile to raise awareness for one of their own students, Tyler Kilpatrick, on May 5. Despite being held indoors, the walk was a success, with the...

NIH releases plan for pain research

On June 1, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) released the Federal Pain Research Strategy (FPRS), a long-term strategic plan for the federal agencies that support pain research. It is essentially a companion plan to the National Pain Strategy...

Pain Warrior of the Month: Michele Rice

Age: 47 years old Location: San Jose, CA Pain warrior role: California ambassador since 2015 Pain conditions: Reflex sympathetic dystrophy/complex regional pain syndrome, fibromyalgia/chronic fatigue, temporal mandibular disease, myofascial pain...

Hemmenway receives Unsung Hero Award

On June 13 at the Friar’s Club in New York City, U.S. Pain’s Nicole Hemmenway received Grunenthal’s annual Unsung Hero Award. The Unsung Hero Award is given to an individual who has excelled in the five following areas: relevance of the...

Feeling alone? Check out Pain Connection

In May 2016, Pain Connection -- a well-known 501(c)(3) nonprofit that provides  support groups, support group trainings, and resources to help individuals with chronic illness and pain as well as their families -- joined forces with U.S. Pain...

Steinberg presents at NIH Pain Consortium Symposium

U.S. Pain's National Director of Policy and Advocacy, Cindy Steinberg, was invited to present the patient perspective at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) 12th Annual Pain Consortium Symposium on May 31 and June 1. Each year, noted...

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