Los Angeles Chronic Pain
Support and advocacy information for individuals dealing with chronic pain.
Author: paintom
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Carrying September Forward
PWLE Voices · Issue 7 · October 5, 2026 Carrying September Forward · Sixth in a Series of Six From the Editor Carrying September Forward The ribbons come down October 1. Here’s what doesn’t. A note on my own seat I hold several of the seats this piece describes. The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)…
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The Rest of the Year
PWLE Voices · Issue 7 · October 5, 2026 Carrying September Forward · Sixth in a Series of Six Stay Engaged · Open Calls The Rest of the Year The ribbons came down four days ago. Here is what is open now, what opens next month, and the one thing you have to remember in…
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The Patients’ Questions
PWLE Voices · Issue 7 · October 5, 2026 Carrying September Forward · Sixth in a Series of Six Partner in Practice The Patients’ Questions A conversation with Dr. Steven Z. George — a physical therapist turned Duke pain researcher on the questions that built his career, none of which were his. Where I stand…
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Say It First
PWLE Voices · Issue 6 · September 28, 2026 Pain Awareness Month · Fifth in a Series of Six Stay Empowered · Tools & Resources Say It First Every observance on the calendar has money behind it, and there is no public place to look. Investigators have a federal rule for conflicts of interest. People…
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Getting to Know Virginia McIntyre
PWLE Voices · Issue 6 · September 28, 2026 Pain Awareness Month · Fifth in a Series of Six Stay Connected · Meet a Fellow PWLE Getting to Know Virginia McIntyre She kept her head down for nearly a decade. Then a stranger in a conference room told her what she had done. A note…
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Somebody Needs to Do Something
PWLE Voices · Issue 6 · September 28, 2026 Pain Awareness Month · Fifth in a Series of Six Featured · Meet a Fellow PWLE “Somebody Needs to Do Something” A fall at work took the job Saira Maria Loza loved, and pointed her toward the rooms where she could speak for the patients she…
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Who Gets a Month?
PWLE Voices · Issue 6 · September 28, 2026 Pain Awareness Month · Fifth in a Series of Six Stay Informed · Research Update Who Gets a Month? Nobody is in charge of the awareness calendar. September belongs to pain because a coalition took it — not because anyone in Washington voted. There is no…
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The Word Changes at the Border
PWLE Voices · Issue 6 · September 28, 2026 Pain Awareness Month · Fifth in a Series of Six Stay Empowered · Tools & Resources The Word Changes at the Border Four countries, four names for the same chair. Knowing which one you are being offered tells you what you are actually being asked to…
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Ask in the Spring
PWLE Voices · Issue 6 · September 28, 2026 Pain Awareness Month · Fifth in a Series of Six Stay Engaged · Open Calls Ask in the Spring Four places your experience is being asked for. One closes next month, one opens in five weeks, one is open every day of the year, and one…
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Three Shows, and What It Takes to Keep One On
PWLE Voices · Issue 5 · September 21, 2026 Pain Awareness Month · Fourth in a Series of Six Stay Empowered · Worth a Listen · Installment Two · A continuing article Three Shows, and What It Takes to Keep One On The podcasts about engagement itself. Staying on the air turns out to be…
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“There’s No Budget”: What to Ask for Instead
PWLE Voices · Issue 5 · September 21, 2026 Pain Awareness Month · Fourth in a Series of Six Stay Empowered · Tools & Resources “There’s No Budget”: What to Ask for Instead When a project cannot pay you, that does not mean your time is free. What to ask for instead — and how…