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Available Now: Newest Edition of the Pain Community News

The Winter 2009 Vol.9, Issue 1 includes the following articles: Finding Purpose; Coping with Pain around the Holidays; A Hero’s First Holiday; Fast Facts on Amputation/Phantom Limb Pain; Ask a Lawyer; Top 10 Tips to Help Restore Intimacy; and Targeting Pain at Work.

Mayssa Sultan is Recipient of Fourth Annual Service Excellence Award!

Mayssa Sultan, L.Ac, MPA received the 2008 American Pain Foundation Service Excellence Award at a recent staff luncheon. This award, bearing the name of its first recipient Carolyn Nuth, a long-time staff member, is given every year to a staff person who displays exceptional compassion, integrity and excellence in work. Read more >>

APF Recognizes Outstanding Leadership and Advocacy Efforts Made in Advancing Rights of People with Pain

View the Annual Celebration photos! APF commemorated the outstanding efforts made to improve pain management and treatment for the millions of Americans who are living in chronic pain by hosting “Images & Inspiration,” an Annual Celebration and Awards Dinner held in October at the American Visionary Arts Museum in Baltimore. A slideshow highlighting selected art submissions from the Pain and Creativity Exhibit was shown at the celebration as well as a video featuring artists, artwork and pain care advocates.

Archived Chat with Derek McGinnis, Amputee Advocate

The chat with Derek McGinnis, the American Pain Foundation’s Amputee Advocate discussed the importance of exercise as part of your pain care plan. Derek is an Iraq War Veteran who served in the Navy as a Hospital Corpsman for 11 years. After being involved in an IED explosion in Fallujah, Iraq and losing his leg above the knee, Derek focused on physical exercise and triathlon training to help him cope with the mental and physical stress associated with pain during his recovery. Read the archived transcript >>

Pain Community Advisory Council Member Honored by National Publication

Rachel Lozano, a three-time cancer survivor and member of the American Pain Foundation’s Pain Community Advisory Council was recently named Glamour Magazine’s 2008 Woman of Your Year and was honored at an awards ceremony at Carnegie Hall in New York, NY. Read more >>

(Photo courtesy of Larry Busacca/Wireimage)
 

APF Contributes Chapter on Pain for Online Book

APF is pleased to have contributed a chapter on pain in the new online American Veterans and Service Members Survival Guide. To read the section about pain, click here and go to page 127.

Let's Talk Pain Coalition

APF is pleased to collaborate with two other leading pain organizations, the American Academy of Pain Management and the American Society for Pain Management Nursing, in the Let's Talk Pain Coalition, a first of its kind to unite the perspectives of patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals. The core of this work is to encourage people to talk more about pain, listen actively and act in ways that improve care for the millions of people who live with pain. A new interactive website provides visitors with comprehensive information and tools to enhance the dialogue between those affected by pain and healthcare professionals. Read more >>

APF Enters World of Social Media!

APF is expanding into the online communications world. There will be more soon with the unveiling of our improved website before the year ends, but for now check out our videos on YouTube, iTunes, mDialogue, and Facebook!

APF is also collaborating with Life Love & Health to provide a series of brief messages about pain.  Life Love & Health has become America's most listened to daily health and lifestyle program, reaching millions of listeners via XM, CNN, Fox, ESPN, Sirius, Voice of America, www.HealthRadio.net Internet radio, Public Radio affiliates and Wal-Mart Radio. Listen to our shows now!

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