From Young, Healthy, and Active to Disabled In 1977, I was 25 years old and attending graduate school, working towards...
Blog Articles
Adjusting to Life with Chronic Pain
My heart breaks when I meet a young person sharing that they are confronting life with chronic pain. At the age of 74,...
Should I Consider Having A Service Dog?
Have you ever wondered about the advantages of having a service dog? If you are living with a difficult medical...
Jen Cragen
Traversing the Rollercoaster of Chronic Migraine After Brain Infection Jen Cragen, 47, has what they describe as a...
Dorene MacKinnon
Finding a Way Out of the Storm It started in the spring of 2021 with a little twinge in her shoulder. Dorene MacKinnon...
Dianna Burt
One Day at the Gym Leads to Years of Pain and Questions Every other week, Dianna Burt drives an hour and a half across...
Chris Johnson
Making the Choice Not to Give Up If you could go back in time and see Chris Johnson, now 57, living his life in 2013,...
Beverly Pietlicki
One Moment Leads to a Lifetime of Pain A cold New Hampshire day in 1980 changed Beverly Pietlicki’s life forever. That...
The Unknowns of Long COVID and its Impact on Chronic Pain
In March 2020, Melissa Geraghty, PsyD—a licensed clinical health psychologist and CEO of Phoenix Rising with Dr. G who...
Acute Pain: Managing pain immediately
Even the most cautious, careful person will experience hundreds of instances of pain in their lifetime. A stubbed toe....
An interview with Cindy Steinberg: CDC’s final issued Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain
On November 3, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released its final 2022 Clinical Guideline for...
When pain doesn’t leave: The intersection of acute and chronic pain
According to the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), pain is "an unpleasant sensory and emotional...