Myth: Diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) is only a concern for people with long-term diabetes. Fact: DPN can develop...
Blog Articles
Take Steps Today: Preventing, Detecting, and Slowing the Progression of DPN
Being diagnosed with diabetes raises a variety of concerns, but one many people aren’t aware of is this: Up to half of...
The Light at the End of the Tunnel: Finding Hope Through Volunteering
This is the first installment of a three-part series leading up to the exciting re-launch of the U.S. Pain Foundation...
William Hatchett
Fighting for Access to Treatment for Dual Diagnoses William Hatchett II knows that money can’t buy happiness. But he...
Tiffany Porter
Disabled, Black, Female, and Queer: The View from ‘the Bottom of the Barrel’ People still ask Tiffany Porter when she...
Mia Robinson
Turning Pain and Tragedy into Advocacy For Mia Robinson, every day is planned around chronic pain. “How I move in life...
Manisha Gupta, PhD
From Scientist to Patient: When Health Care Equity Becomes a Personal Struggle Manisha Gupta, 39, has battled a...
Lorrie Starr, PhD
Through Pain, a Profusion of Hard-Earned Lessons If Lorrie Starr were to write a book about her life, she’d call it...
Jacob & John Smith
Young Twins Navigating Pain Together The idea of having a child who lives with chronic pain is unbearable to a parent....
Grace Chappell
Combating the Stereotype of the ‘Angry Black Woman’ One day in 2021, without warning, Grace Chappell couldn’t speak....
Dina Thachet
Formerly Hesitant to Question Doctors, She Now Speaks Up for Others Until she was 19, Dina Thachet was “100% healthy,”...
David Simpson
Staying Upright—And Helping Others Stand, Too In 2008, David Simpson was at a capoeira class. This Brazilian martial...