Advocacy & Support Groups
Discover great resources to help manage your path of healing. Find help from both general and condition-specific pain advocacy and support groups. Information is also available for both the caregiver and pain professional. Learn, share, and grow with these helpful organizations.
PAIN ADVOCACY & SUPPORT GROUPS
- Abbott (Formerly St. Jude Medical)
- American Chronic Pain Association
- Alliance for Balanced Pain Management
- Campaign to End Chronic Pain in Women
- ChildKind International
- Chronic Pain Anonymous
- Chronic Pain Research Alliance
- The Coalition Against Pediatric Pain
- For Grace
- Goalistics
- Growing Pains
- Heros of Healing
- How to Cope with Pain
- Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee
- International Pain Foundation
- Mastering Pain Institute
- National Fibromyalgia and Chronic Pain Association
- National Vulvodynia Association
- Pain Action
- Pain Community
- Pain Connection
- PainPathways Magazine
- PAINS Project
- PAST Pain – Retired Athletes Pain Management & Medical Resource Group
- Patient Mind, Inc.
- Race Against Pain
- Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Association
- Sceptor Pain Foundation
- Thriving With Pain
- Special Interest Group on Pain in Childhood
- The State Pain Policy Advocacy Network (SPPAN)
- US Pain Foundation
- Veterans In Pain
PAIN ORGANIZATIONS (PROFESSIONAL)
- Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine
- Academy of Integrative Pain Management
- American Academy of Craniofacial Pain
- American Academy of Orofacial Pain
- American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
- American Academy of Pain Medicine
- American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- American Academy of Spine Physicians
- American College of Rheumatology
- American Headache Society
- American Medical Association
- American Osteopathic Association
- American Pain Society
- American Society of Anesthesiologists
- American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians
- American Society of Pain Educators
- American Society for Pain Management Nursing
- American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
- Defense & Veterans Center for Integrative Pain Management
- Facial Pain Research Foundation
- International Association for the Study of Pain
- International Neuromodulation Society
- International Pelvic Pain Society
- National Coalition of Chronic Pain Providers & Professionals
- New York State Pain Society
- North American Neuromodulation Society (NANS)
- North American Spine Society
- Pain Society of the Carolinas
- PainEDU
- Palliative Doctors
- Tennessee Pain Society
- Texas Pain Society
- Society for Pain Practice Management
- Society for Pediatric Pain Medicine
- World Health Organization
- World Institute of Pain
CANCER ADVOCACY & SUPPORT GROUPS
- American Cancer Society
- American Thyroid Association
- Association of Oncology Social Work
- Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network
- Cancer Pain Research Consortium
- Cancer Care
- Cancer Support Center
- Cancer Support Community
- End Brain Cancer
- Fight Colorectal Cancer
- Friends for an Earlier Breast Cancer Test
- Foundation for Women’s Cancer
- Intercultural Cancer Council
- Kidney Cancer Association
- Lillie’s Friends
- Lukemia & Lymphoma Society
- Lung Cancer Alliance
- The Lung Cancer Research Foundation
- The National Alliance of State Prostate Cancer Coalitions (NASPCC)
- National Cancer Institute
- National Cervical Cancer Coalition
- National Children’s Cancer Society
- National Ovarian Cancer Coalition
- National Prostate Cancer Coalition
- Pancreatic Cancer Action Network
- The Prostate Net
- The Purple Society
- REACT Thyroid Foundation
- Skin Cancer Foundation
- Susan G. Komen for the Cure
- Thyroid Cancer Survivors Association, Inc
- Treat Mesothelioma
- Unravel Pediatric Cancer
- The V Foundation for Cancer Research
CAREGIVER GROUPS
- Adult Children of Aging Parents
- American Association of Caregiving Youth
- Caregiver Action Network
- Caregiver Briefcase
- Caregiver’s Home Companion
- Caregivers With Hope
- Caring Road Support Network
- Family Caregiver Alliance
- Leeza’s Care Connection
- National Alliance for Caregiving
- National Caregivers Library
- National Council for Aging Care
- National Transitions of Care Coalition
- Net of Care
- Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregiving
- The Caregiver Space
- Today’s Caregiver
- Veterans Affairs Caregiver Support
- Well Spouse Association
CONDITION-SPECIFIC GROUPS
- Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress
- American Diabetes Association
- American Fibromyalgia Syndrome Association
- American Headache Society
- American Heart Association
- American RSD Hope
- American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics
- American Stroke Association
- Amputee Coalition of America
- Arthritis Foundation
- Band Against MS
- Breathworks (UK based)
- Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome Association
- Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities
- Clot Connect
- Crohns and Colitis Foundation of America
- Cure Spinal Muscular Atrophy (CMA)
- Disability Advocates of America
- Disabled American Veterans
- Dysautonomia Support Network
- Ehlers-Danlos Society
- The Erythromyalgia Association
- Facial Pain Advocacy Alliance
- Facial Pain Association
- Fibro Warriors Living Life
- Fibromyalgia Care Society of America
- Fibromyalgia Network
- Foundation for Peripheral Neuropathy
- Health in Aging Foundation
- HealthyWomen
- International Osteoporosis Foundation
- Interstitial Cystitis Association
- Invisible Disabilities Association
- Lupus Foundation of America
- Men With Fibromyalgia
- Migraine Disease.com
- Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America
- National Association of Area Agencies on Aging
- National Center for Complementary & Integrative Health
- National Fibromyalgia Association
- National Headache Foundation
- National Migraine Association
- National Multiple Sclerosis Society
- National Organization for Rare Disorders
- National Osteoporosis Foundation
- National Stroke Association
- National Vulvodynia Association
- NEADS, Dogs for Deaf and Disabled Americans
- Patient Advocate Foundation
- Putting Our Heads Together (headache and migraine group)
- Sickel Cell Disease Foundation of America
- Spinal CSF Leak Foundation
- The Scheuermann’s Disease Fund
- World Adhesions Foundation
PAIN, CANCER & WELLNESS CENTERS
The following list of medical centers is provided as a courtesy but does not reflect a recommendation on the part of PainPathways Magazine.
- Alliance Spine and Pain Care Centers
- Arizona Pain Management Clinic
- Balance In Life, Integrative Pain Management
- Bay Area Pain and Wellness Center
- Cancer Centers of America
- Carolinas Pain Institute
- Cleveland Clinic
- Defense and Veterans Center for Integrative Pain Management
- Duke Integrative Medicine
- Gulf to Bay Integrative Pain Management and Rehab
- Inova Spine Institute
- The Integrative Medicine Clinic
- Laser Spine Institute
- Lebanon Pain Specialists
- Mayo Clinic – Pain Rehabilitation Center
- MD Anderson
- National Spine and Pain Centers
- North American Neuromodulation Society (NANS)
- Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness and Research Centre
- Pain Center of Arizona
- Pain Consultants of Atlanta
- Physicians Choice Lab Services
- Silver Hill
- Texas Back Institute
- Virginia Spine Institute