Chronic pain is an intense, recurrent feeling of pain experienced by parents or caregivers of children with chronic health conditions throughout their lives. This is a permanent state of being as opposed to the stages of grief that end with acceptance and moving forward with one's life. This report will examine what chronic pain consists of, provide a brief history of its development and introduction to nursing, and relate the significance of this middle-range theory to modern nursing practice. As has been previously stated, chronic pain is a recurring feeling of sadness in parents and caregivers of children with developmental disabilities. The concept of chronic pain tends to focus on parents of mentally disabled and amputee children; however, chronic pain can also be applied to individuals with children suffering from chronic illnesses but without developmental problems (Lowes, L., Lyne, P., 2000). Feelings of grief generally revolve around the loss or “death” of the child imagined to be perfect and healthy when he was first diagnosed. It has been compared to the grief of a deceased parent ...