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Chronic pain is one of the largest public health crises of our time.
In the US, 3 out of 5 adults (nearly 150 million people) live in pain.1 60 million people live with chronic pain.
Headache and musculoskeletal pain rank among the leading causes of years lived with disability on Earth.2
Pain is the most common reason people seek medical care.3
And yet, for something so universal, it is astonishingly poorly served.
The traditional healthcare system was never built for pain.
Pain is invisible and leaves no proof.
With no scan or number to point to, the burden of proof falls on patients. Patients are doubted, downplayed, told it's in their head.
Women, older adults, and people of color are doubted most of all.4
Treatment is trial and error.
What brings one person relief does nothing for the next. Patients cycle through drug after drug for years, with no way to foresee what will work.5
Care is out of reach.
There are only 4 board-certified pain physicians for every 100,000 Americans with chronic pain.6
The U.S. faces a projected 19% shortfall of neurologists,7 and fewer doctors are entering pain medicine each year.8 People wait months simply to be seen.9
UniqueHuman organizes healthcare around your pain, multiplies the reach of every clinician, and advances pain research.
We combine leading medical evidence with cutting-edge technology to catch signals early and triage with precision, directing each patient to the right care sooner, and concentrating every clinician's limited time on the patients who need it most.
While we're at it, we are building the definitive dataset on human pain.
A living, longitudinal picture of pain signals studied over millions of lives enables us to collaborate on scientific research and help advance the next generation of pain treatments.
The mission is deeply personal.
I saw my mom suffer from chronic pain for more than a decade, longer than she should have — due to missed signals, conflicting guidance, and fragmented care.
Years later, it happened to me too. It took me years to get my headaches diagnosed as migraines, and learn how to co-exist with pain.
UniqueHuman is here to break the pain cycle.
We are re-building the pain care system to do the work for you, not the other way around.
- Nearly 3 in 5 U.S. adults (58.9%) experienced pain in the past 3 months, 2019. CDC NCHS Data Brief No. 415. cdc.gov
- Musculoskeletal pain and headache rank among the top causes of Years Lived with Disability (Global Burden of Disease). PMC6676152
- Chronic pain is among the most common reasons adults seek medical care. NCHS Data Brief No. 518; NIH NCCIH.
- Bias in pain assessment against women, older adults, and minorities. PMC8493671; PMC11877092.
- Pain diagnoses are often unspecific; analgesics are frequently prescribed on a trial-and-error basis. Pharmaceuticals (PMC4665549).
- Approximately 4 board-certified pain physicians per 100,000 people with chronic pain in the U.S. Breuer et al., The Journal of Pain, 2007.
- U.S. neurologist demand projected to exceed supply by roughly 19% by 2025. Dall et al., Neurology (AAN Workforce analysis), 2013. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Fewer physicians are entering pain medicine, with declining fellowship applications. UC Davis Health, 2025.
- Median wait to see a neurologist is 34 days (~18% wait more than 90 days); among patients flagged with a neurologic condition, the median time to be seen was 342 days. Neurology, 2025; Lin et al. via Medscape, 2025. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov