By Ashley Hattle When research views individuals with pain as data points on a graph or medical curiosities, clinical...
Blog Articles
Patient Registries: Communities Steering Modern Research
By Julia Daye The last decade has seen a boom in patient registries—databases that collect voluntary information from...
Measuring an Invisible Experience: Understanding Pain Scales—And Their Limitations
By Samantha Kahn Providers and researchers routinely ask patients: “On a scale from 0 to 10, how would you rate your...
Research Pain to Manage Pain
The need for more pain management options has perhaps never been greater or more urgent—with more than 51.6 million...
The Impact of Pain in America
The latest population health data findings from the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) reiterate an...
Learn How To Become An Effective Advocate This Fall
This October, U.S. Pain will be hosting its annual Virtual Advocacy Training Series to teach advocates how to use...
Summer Camp Lets Kids Be Kids—With Pain
Kids climbing the rock wall at Morgan’s Wonderland Camp in San Antonio, Texas, this June had knee braces, carefully...
My Unexpected Solution for Peace of Mind
I love the moments in life that can be so peaceful, rewarding, interesting, and, at times, so unexpected. But, when...
The Key to Health Equity: Multi-Stakeholder Engagement, with an Emphasis on Patient Voices
By Yasmeen Long, MAEarly in my career, I recruited participants for a study on kidney disease, and one patient asked...
Nicole Watson
Learning to Be More Than Her Crohn’s By Jill Waldbieser Nicole Watson was diagnosed with a lifelong, life-changing...
The Dieng Family
‘We’re the Migraine Family’ By Ashley Hattle At 13, Jibreel Dieng has known the pain of migraine attacks for almost...
Devin Goldstein
Healing from Pain and Doubt: The Power of Putting Health First By Sara Walsh He hadn’t fallen or even landed...