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Publications
Pain Monitor Access Matters: Making Sense of Health Coverage
Annual Reports
APF Report: Provider Prescribing Patterns and Perceptions - Identifying Solutions to Build Consensus on Opioid Use in Pain Management
Brochures & Panel Cards
Exit Wounds: A Survival Guide to Pain Management for Returning Veterans
Fibromyalgia: the Information & Care You Deserve
Pain Care Bill of Rights
Pain Resource Guide: Getting the Help You Need
Reporter's Guide: Covering Pain & Its Management
Research Update
Target Chronic Pain
The Target Chronic Pain Card is designed to give healthcare professionals a road map to providing quality chronic pain assessment and relief. The card contains useful resources, including protective strategies to guard against addiction, abuse and diversion, and graphs to help explain components of chronic pain.
Topic Briefs
Treatment Options: A Guide for Living With Pain
Yoga for Chronic Pain
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If you have a hard time making sense of health insurance or if you struggle because you don't have adequate coverage, you're not alone. It's important to get organized and play an active role in managing your healthcare and related finances. As part of its commitment to improving access to timely pain management, APF is proud to unveil a new booklet, Access Matters: Making Sense of Health Coverage. This booklet provides general information about: various types of health insurance and programs, things to should consider when comparing health plans, how to protect and get the most from your coverage and resources and tips to advocate for your pain care.
We are pleased to report on the many accomplishments that the American Pain Foundation, our network of volunteers and our partners have achieved to help improve the treatment of pain in America. Whether it's through advocacy, education and support or research promotion, we are working hard to make sure pain management is on the local, state and national agendas.
APF convened a roundtable of leading pain experts to discuss the ongoing challenges surrounding optimal opioid therapy and pain management. Esteemed participants issued an urgent call to the pain community to begin to reframe the discussion about opioid therapy in a way that incorporates a more balanced perspective of the benefits and risks of these medications. This thoughtful and lively discussion, supported by an educational grant from Endo Pharmaceuticals, also served as a springboard for future programming to encourage greater collaboration and consensus about opioid therapy and about prescriber patterns and perceptions.
American Pain Foundation
Written by Iraq War Veteran and Pain Advocate Derek McGinnis, Exit Wounds is both a guide to pain management for veterans and their family members and also the inspiring story of how one man, with the support of his family and fellow veterans, fought to survive and even thrive despite his traumatic injuries. To read an excerpt of Exit Wounds or to learn more about where you can obtain a copy, 
Living with chronic widespread pain can be tough. But the more you learn, the better you will feel. There is hope for people with this kind of pain. Read the fibromyalgia handbook and talking points.
The Pain Care Bill of Rights is available in English, Spanish and Chinese. A poster version in English is provided.
Our updated booklet is designed to help you take charge of your pain care. It provides important information about pain and tips to assist you in getting the quality pain care you deserve. Also included are pages to help you list your health care team and record your questions and concerns for appointments with your healthcare provider(s). We hope this will be an invaluable resource for you.
The American Pain Foundation has developed this Guide as a primer on pain and pain management to help meet the informational needs of busy reporters, editors and producers covering the pain story. We know it's a complex topic, and hope you will find this to be a useful resource.
The Research Update translates some of the latest pain research and management practices presented at select scientific meetings, as well as those published in reputable medical journals. The Update will feature Q&A-style articles on emerging and promising areas of pain research and other hot topics and showcase the accomplishments of up-and-coming researchers and treatment clinics.
Target Chronic Pain publications are easy-to-use practical tools for pain assessment, management and communication. The Pain Notebook helps you maintain a record of your pain and communicate your experiences. It's extremely useful when discussing levels of pain, response to treatment and improvements in functioning and side effects. Additional pages are available for printing and include Daily Log, Easing Pain, Healthcare Team, Medications, Pain Scale and Questions & Concerns worksheets.
Topic briefs provide an in-depth look at critical issues in pain management: Primer on Pain Management; Chronic Pain and Opioid Therapy, Integrative Medicine: Non-drug Treatment Options; Pain Facts and Statistics; Pain in Specific Populations; Pain Management and Disparities.
Treatment Options: A Guide for People Living with Pain is an invaluable resource. Written and reviewed by leading pain specialists, our guide provides credible, comprehensive information about medications, psychosocial interventions, complementary approaches, rehabilitation therapies, surgical interventions and more.
Chair Yoga for Good Living is a six week relaxation curriculum (notebook, booklet and poster) tailored to meet the needs of people who are safer practicing yoga in chairs. The course is appropriate for those who do or do not use wheelchairs, who live in long term care facilities or live independently, and who cope daily with chronic pain, stress, illness, and disability.
