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Research & data studies

Original analyses of pain management access in the United States, built from the federal NPI registry and U.S. Census data, alongside featured peer-reviewed research. All of our own statistics are free to cite with attribution, and every original data study includes a downloadable dataset.

  1. Featured research · Peer-reviewed · The Journal of Pain (2026)

    How common is chronic pain in America? 1 in 5 adults — and rising

    New peer-reviewed analysis of 91,001 adults finds chronic pain climbed from 20.5% of U.S. adults in 2019 to 24.3% in 2023, with high-impact chronic pain — pain that limits daily life most days — affecting roughly 1 in 13 adults. Featured with the author’s permission, with a plain-English summary from PainBeacon.

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  2. Data study ·

    Pain care deserts: U.S. counties with no pain management clinic

    1,906 of 3,144 U.S. counties (61%) have no pain management clinic. County-by-county analysis of where 11.3% of Americans live without a local pain management option — with the full dataset as CSV.

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    Map of the United States with the 1,906 counties that have no pain management clinic highlighted in teal — most of the map, densest across the rural West, Great Plains, Appalachia and the South.