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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Expectation, the subjective correlate of prediction, exerts powerful control over perceived pain intensity. Because pain is a powerful motivational force, predictions...

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...

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...

John D. Loeser Distinguished Lecture Learning Objectives: Provide an updated review on postoperative pain guidelines Understand the requirement for a...

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....

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...

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...

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,...

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...

The session will update participants on the mechanisms of various modalities of spinal cord stimulation (SCS). It will start with a preclinical presentation, present...