Featured Pain Management Articles
Pregnancy and Chronic Pain: Expert Advice to Help You Thrive
If you live with chronic pain and want to become pregnant, you'll have to adjust your pain management regime. Here's what you need to know.
Is Your Pain Doctor Woke? Why Cultural Competence Matters for BIPOC
Chronic pain doesn't discriminate and neither should your care. If you are a BIPOC, here's how to find a doctor who will treat you right.
The Empowered Patient's Guide to Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a type of arthritis that typically affects joints – hands, wrists, knees – but can also damage a variety of internal systems. Learn how to recognize the signs and get treatment here.
Using Puppets to Help Future Docs Understand Chronic Pain
A life of chronic illness shaped this artist’s perspective. Learn how she uses puppets to help medical students deliver better care for their chronic pain patients.
The Empowered Patient's Guide to Osteoarthritis (OA)
Osteoarthritis, or OA, is pain caused by wear and tear to the body's joints. Experts explain the causes & best treatments for this most common form of arthritis.
Refusing to Let Chronic Headaches Keep Her in the Dark, this Artist Reveals the Light
Artist Bethany Noël Murray’s paintings focus on the fine details and strange beauty of her chronic migraine with aura condition.
I Use Medical Cannabis for Pain. Here’s How I Explain it To My Kids.
When mom, dad, or even grandma is using medical cannabis and CBD to manage chronic pain and related symptoms, they may have to explain their “drug use” to their children and teens.
The Empowered Pain Patient’s Guide to CBD
CBD can offer pain relief for those suffering from chronic pain conditions. Learn how CBD can help with osteoarthritis, diabetes, cancer and more.
Shingles Led to Postherpetic Neuralgia and Stopped this Working Mother in Her Tracks
This working mother in her 40s was diagnosed with Shingles from the herpes zoster virus, and soon after, developed postherpetic neuralgia (PHN).
One Pain Patient’s Message to the World During COVID: I’m counting on you. Everyone is.
Isolation and holding back on activities are nothing new for those living with chronic pain and chronic illness. Patient advocate and creative resilience coach Jenni Grover wants you to take notice.