The Brain on Opioids
When it comes to opioids, our greatest quandary is whether continuous use helps people with chronic pain, or whether the risks are too great. We know that some chronic...
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to the IASP Pain Education Resource Center (PERC)
PERC is a living library of on-demand educational resources for pain professionals. You must be an IASP member to access PERC.
Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit is available for only US$30 per certificate. Simply view the video resource and complete a short survey to earn your credit.
PERC is a living library of on-demand educational resources for pain professionals. You must be an IASP member to access PERC.
Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit is available for only US$30 per certificate. Simply view the video resource and complete a short survey to earn your credit.
The Global Burden of Disease - Impact of Pain
Burden of disease describes the impact of diseases on individuals, communities and societies. Burden of disease studies are used to assess the relative contribution of...
Postmodern Pain Education: “from Being to Becoming”
This talk will follow a “flipped classroom” format. It will not simply duplicate the content of the accompanying editorial published in the World Congress issue of...
From Evidence to Influence: Dissemination and Implementation of Science for Improved Pain Research and Care
In the long run, scientific research in pain will only help patients if it can be effectively disseminated and implemented. Unfortunately, the public is generally...
Where to from Here for Psychological Treatments for Pain
Ronald Melzack Award Pain is best thought of as a motivation to avoid harm. In this lecture I present a novel tripartite system of embodied defense that explains the...
How Expectations Shape Pain Perception
Expectation, the subjective correlate of prediction, exerts powerful control over perceived pain intensity. Because pain is a powerful motivational force, predictions...
Optogenetics for Research and Therapy
This lecture will introduce the audience to the rapidly expanding field of optogenetics, a powerful tool for manipulating the activity of individual neurons in the...
Education in Pain and Palliative Care - The Asia-pacific Experience
The disciplines of pain and palliative care are generally not well developed in many countries in South and Southeast Asia. The IASP has tried to improve education in...
Postoperative Pain and Recovery
John D. Loeser Distinguished Lecture Learning Objectives: Provide an updated review on postoperative pain guidelines Understand the requirement for a...
One Nerve, Three Divisions, Two Professions and Nearly No Crosstalk
One of the enigmas of primary headache is that they are, with the exception of neuralgiform pain, the only human pain syndromes which appear in regular attacks....
Psychological Therapies for the World: Lessons for Pain Management from Low Resource Settings
This session will describe the innovations in improving access to mental health care globally and will consider their implications for efforts to expand the reach and...
How Does Physical Activity Modulate Pain?
Dr. Sluka is a professor in the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science at the University of Iowa. She received a physical therapy degree from...
Bedside to Bench: Elucidating Mechanisms of Articular and Non-articular Arthritis Pain
Chronic pain is one of the hallmarks and most debilitating symptom of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Despite the recent advances in development of disease modifying drugs,...
TRP Channels and Nociception
A simple but very effective way to detect and convert the painful stimuli to electric signals in the sensory neurons is activation of certain types of ion channels...
50 Years of Spinal Cord Stimulation: Where Are We Now?
The session will update participants on the mechanisms of various modalities of spinal cord stimulation (SCS). It will start with a preclinical presentation, present...