A second art piece depicts how DuBay feels about her own personal pain, calling it, "how I feel during a flare that myself is bleeding into my sick self." She hopes other people with chronic pain ...

But sometimes the pain lingers long after the danger has passed, becoming chronic. Chronic pain in the form of headaches, joint problems, or full-blown fibromyalgia can radically impact one's life.

In her art, however, Rao-Middleton was able to communicate the reality of living with chronic illness and disabilities ... I couldn’t picture what was causing the pain. So, making the rugs ...

Our understanding of pain, and especially chronic pain, is far behind where it should be. We don’t know what causes a person with an injury to develop chronic pain, or why it happens in some ...