Building Your Team: The Specialists who Treat Diabetes
Diabetes is incredibly complex, as is its treatment. Because of that, managing diabetes typically involves a team of health care professionals.
Diabetes is incredibly complex, as is its treatment. Because of that, managing diabetes typically involves a team of health care professionals.
Diabetes is far more than a disease involving insulin and blood sugar—it can affect most of the body, and there are a variety of complications and comorbidities that can accompany it.
Monitoring and caring for your feet is one of the most effective ways to help avoid diabetes-related complications, or to catch problems early.
Diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) is a common complication of diabetes, affecting as many as half of those living with the disease.
The rising rate of diabetes in the United States has long been a cause for concern. Not only does the disease have many harmful impacts on health, but there is also a lack of education and research about its relationship to chronic pain.
Diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) is a silent, sinister syndrome. About half of people with diabetes have neuropathy. Many, if not most, of them have not only the painless problem of lost sensation, which can still be dangerous, but also the painful problem of neuropathic pain.
The Key to Health Equity: Multi-Stakeholder Engagement, with an Emphasis on Patient Voices
Everyone seeking emergency care navigates wait times, insurance, and harried medical staff, but for individuals living with chronic pain, an ER trip can devolve into discrimination and gaslighting.
As late as 1980, medical professionals widely believed that infants couldn’t feel pain. When children complained of unexplainable or invisible pain, it was chalked up to “growing pains” or a dramatic, hysterical child—a crybaby.
Anyone who lives with chronic pain—or cares about someone who does—knows that treatment can be complex, time-consuming, and costly. At the start of 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) took a major step toward eliminating some of those obstacles when it debuted the first-ever specialized billing codes for chronic pain management in the Medicare program.
When it comes to older individuals living with chronic pain, doctor’s appointments are one of the best examples of the old adage “by failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
The 2022 annual Transgender Day of Remembrance and Resilience was also the day of one of the worst hate crimes against LGBTQ+ people in recent memory: the mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs. Sara Gehrig, who leads U.S. Pain Foundation’s LGBTQ+ support group, knew that the members of her group would be reeling from the news.