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Sunbeam® Collaborates with the U.S. Pain Foundation, Brings Attention to Chronic Pain for National Pain Awareness Month
Research Finds More Than 67 Percent of Americans with Chronic Pain Use Heat Therapy At Least Once a Week to Manage Their Pain BOCA RATON, Fla., Aug. 31, 2020
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[{"type":"text","content":"Research Finds More Than 67 Percent of Americans with Chronic Pain Use Heat Therapy At Least Once a Week to Manage Their Pain\n\n\n BOCA RATON, Fla., Aug. 31, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Sunbeam®, a leader in heat therapy products, is collaborating with the U.S. Pain Foundation for September's Pain Awareness Month to call attention to the real-life barriers chronic pain patients face in accessing proper pain treatment. The initiative will also offer perspective into pain management solutions—including heat therapy.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\"At Sunbeam, we are not only committed to bringing innovation in heat therapy products to market, but also to finding ways to educate people living with chronic pain about the pain management benefits of heat therapy,\" said Aimee Yu, Senior Brand Manager, Sunbeam. \"Working with the U.S. Pain Foundation gives us a new way to better understand individuals' experiences, engage in conversation and support consumers as they navigate pain relief or their conditions.\" \nTo gain insights into the obstacles people with pain face in accessing pain care, in August 2020, the U.S. Pain Foundation conducted a survey of 1,581 chronic pain patients in collaboration with Sunbeam. According to the survey, most individuals are not getting access to multidisciplinary and integrative pain care—the type of care that is widely viewed as best practice.\n76.5% said their pain clinic or center only offers pain doctors, not multidisciplinary specialists, like physical therapists, psychologists, social workers or nutritionists. Providers typically most emphasized medications (38.4%) and interventional procedures (26.2%), while patients wish they most emphasized complementary and integrative health (39%), restorative therapies (36.6%) and medications (35.5%). More than three-quarters of respondents indicated cost prevented them from accessing one or more treatment options (76.5%). The most common therapy used by people with pain is heat and cold therapy (65.7%), which three-quarters of respondents (77.3%) rated as \"effective\" or \"somewhat effective\" when treating their pain. Of those that use heat or cold therapy to manage pain, 52.6% said they found heat more effective. \"This latest research shows emerging gaps and opportunities in the pain care space, largely that heat and cold therapies are highly effective yet unde...