User:Gwenn Herman

Gwenn Herman, LCSW-C,DCSW

Gwenn Herman is the founder and director of Pain Connection - Chronic Pain Outreach Center, Inc. since April, 1999. The personal experience that propelled her commitment to this cause was being in a car accident nine years ago. In a split second her whole life changed and the accident left her handicapped with chronic pain in the neck, shoulders, and head. Ms. Herman was thrown into a world of medical decisions of which she knew nothing and began searching for information about cervical discs, facet joints, myofascial pain, referred pain, orthopaedics, neurology, neurosurgery, conservative and alternative treatments and various medical procedures. Gwenn realized she needed a resource to consult where she could obtain better information and and her need to talk to others in similar situations. Frustrated by the lack of awareness and understanding of chronic pain that she repeatedly confronted among medical professionals, Gwenn developed her ideas and founded Pain Connection®.