Community Advice

Advocates in Action

See what patient advocates are doing to raise awareness about chronic pain, unequal healthcare access, and opioid stigma. Plus, how some are using their voice – and their creativity – to showcase what invisible conditions feel like through art.

• A Letter to Pain Doctors, by Tom Bowen
• A Call to Action for women and people of color living with chronic pain, with Dr. Monica Mallampalli
• Opioid Crisis is Not Over – pain patient perspectives and a Q&A with The U.S. Pain Foundation's Cindy Steinberg
• My Migraine Journey to Patient Advocacy, by Jaime Sanders
• Using Creativity to Cope with Chronic Pain, by Jenni Grover (see her two-part series and video chat demonstration)
• Painting through Chronic Nerve Pain, with Annika Connor
• How I Hurt photography series, by Justin J. Wee
• The Making of a Patient Advocate, by Richard A. Lawhern, PhD (See also, Dr. Lawhern's take on pain research: 20 Years of Treading Water)
• Migraine Aura: Putting what it feels like into pictures, with Bethany Noel Murray
• This is Pain: A digital and awareness initiative, with Trina Merry
• A documentary on living with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, by Karina Ulrike Sturm
• Transforming health data and chronic illness into tactile art, with Justus Harris and MedSculp

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Practical Pain Management is proud to connect you with other patients, as well as and physicians, working to manage chronic pain on a daily basis. Share your thoughts, feelings, strategies, and ideas for living with chronic pain on our active social media platforms:

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