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Ending needless suffering by redefining chronic muscle pain through research, advocacy, & education. Creating a future where muscle pain is understood and no longer endured.
Despite muscles constituting nearly 40% of our body weight, they remain critically overlooked in healthcare.
Women had higher prevalence of chronic pain in 2023: 25.4% of women vs 23.2% of men.
Americans experienced chronic pain in 2023
people globally live with musculoskeletal conditions
is the amount that Americans spent on low back and neck pain
Despite muscles constituting nearly 40% of our body weight, they remain critically overlooked in healthcare.
Chronic muscle pain leads millions into unnecessary surgeries, ineffective treatments, and prolonged suffering.
At FRAME Foundation, we’re determined to change this.
FRAME Foundation is at the forefront of evidence-based research, innovative educational programs, and relentless global advocacy to ensure muscle pain becomes recognized and effectively treated worldwide.
Influential advocacy
Shaping healthcare policies and guidelines.
Groundbreaking research
Validating muscle-centric treatments.
Educational transformation
Embedding muscle health into medical training globally.
Our work has already prevented unnecessary surgeries, improved countless lives, and reshaped medical understanding of chronic pain but we’re just getting started.
Significant reduction in surgeries through muscle - pain interventions.
Global partnership with leading institutions
Influential advocacy
FRAME Foundation is at the forefront of evidence-based research, innovative educational programs, and relentless global advocacy to ensure muscle pain becomes recognized and effectively treated worldwide.
Groundbreaking Research – Validating muscle-centric treatments.
Educational Transformation – Embedding muscle health into medical training globally.
Influential Advocacy – Shaping healthcare policies and guidelines.
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Our work has already prevented unnecessary
surgeries, improved countless lives, and reshaped
medical understanding of chronic pain. But we’re
just getting started.
Significant reduction in surgeries through muscle -pain interventions.
Global partnership with leading institutions
Robust clinical evidence supporting muscle focused treatment
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Trained in psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine, he quickly became a national leader by founding New York City’s first outpatient pain center and an innovative inpatient program at Lennox Hill Hospital.
Kraus revealed a truth missing from modern healthcare: muscles are one of the most common, and most overlooked - sources of chronic pain.
This sparked his life’s mission: to correct the systemic blind spot that leaves millions misdiagnosed and untreated.
Dr. Norman Marcus’s career spans more than four decades of groundbreaking work in chronic pain medicine.
But his greatest breakthrough came after meeting Dr. Hans Kraus, the physician who treated President John F. Kennedy.
When Dr. Marcus applied this insight, patients who had suffered for years, including those scheduled for spinal surgery, found relief through muscle-focused treatment.
He co-founded FRAME Foundation to advance muscle pain research, transform medical education, and advocate for a healthcare system where muscle pain is finally understood and effectively treated.
Dr. Norman Marcus’s career spans more than four decades of groundbreaking work in chronic pain medicine.
Trained in psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine, he quickly became a national leader by founding New York City’s first outpatient pain center and an innovative inpatient program at Lennox Hill Hospital.
But his greatest breakthrough came after meeting Dr. Hans Krauss, the physician who treated President John F. Kennedy.
Krauss revealed a truth missing from modern healthcare: muscles are one of the most common, and most overlooked - sources of chronic pain.
When Dr. Marcus applied this insight, patients who had suffered for years, including those scheduled for spinal surgery, found relief through muscle-focused treatment.
This sparked his life’s mission: to correct the systemic blind spot that leaves millions misdiagnosed and untreated.
He co-founded FRAME Foundation to advance muscle pain research, transform medical education, and advocate for a healthcare system where muscle pain is finally understood and effectively treated.
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From pioneering pain centers and innovative research to transforming chronic pain management.
Discover how Dr. Norman Marcus’s visionary leadership sparked a global movement to prioritize muscle health.
Integrated Psychiatry
& Pain: Uncovered vital
mind-body pain
connections.
Pioneered Biofeedback:
Championed holistic
care, gaining global
recognition.
Launched NYC Pain
Center: Brought
innovative outpatient
pain care forward.
Partnered with
Dr. Krauss: Identified
muscles as key pain
source.
Founded FRAME:
Advanced muscle pain
research, education, and
advocacy globally.
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Together, we can end unnecessary muscle pain and restore quality of life for millions around the world. Your support makes our transformative work possible.
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