My Treatment
The Ins and Outs of Caregiving
Caregiving can range from giving medications, helping with meals, assisting with personal care, to performing nursing procedures. One of the most difficult things about being a caregiver is dealing with the additional demands on the caregiver's time and emotions. Click here to read about the caregiving role and tips to help caregivers.

Implantable Therapy for Pain Control: Spinal Cord Stimulation and Implantable Drug Delivery Systems Implantable therapies have received a lot of press in recent months. NPF Co-Founder and Board Member Dr. Elliot Krames provides an easy-to-read overview of how these systems work and what you can expect if you receive one. Click here to read more!

Pain Medicine reviewed in the Journal of the American Medical Association
Pain Medicine, edited by the National Pain Foundation's Chief Editor Dr. Rollin M. Gallagher, recently was favorably reviewed in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Click here to read more about what JAMA says about this important journal!

News
Read about some of the latest research on factors contributing to chronic pain, how smoking affects pain, new uses of medications, and more. Click here!

My Community
The National Pain Awareness Campaign Kicks Off
The National Pain Foundation and the American Academy of Pain Medicine together are sponsoring this year's National Pain Awareness Campaign. Click here to read about important activities surrounding pain awareness.

My Support
Rejuvenate Yourself!
Instead of beating yourself up for not always eating right or exercising, think about how you can rejuvenate your spirit by taking better care of yourself. Click here to learn about some simple techniques that can help you feel more relaxed.

Wellness
NPF Clinical Board of Directors member Dr. Michael Loes says wellness represents a togetherness of your body, emotions, mind and spirit. Click here to read more about feeling "well"!

Why Can't they Understand?
NPF Co-Founder and Clinical Board of Directors member James E. Hagen, M.S., reflects on the lack of validation of pain and calls on people in chronic pain to be educators in their own way by teaching that pain is real. Read more in this guest editorial.