The activities of the Societal Impact of Pain (SIP) partners at the EFIC Congress started with the meeting of about 25 representatives of the eight SIP national platforms (Spain, Portugal, France, Malta, Belgium, Netherlands, Finland, Ireland). In this gathering, SIP...
Dear Mrs. Kyriakides, I am writing on behalf of the European Pain Federation EFIC® to congratulate you on your nomination as the next European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety. EFIC® represents close to 20,000 physicians, basic researchers, nurses,...
VALENCIA, 5 September 2019 – Patients can experience amazing reductions in pain simply by understanding how pain actually works and how their body and brain can be changed, delegates at the European Pain Federation’s biennial Congress in Valencia, Spain, will be told...
VALENCIA, 4 September 2019 – Multi-modal pain treatment for cancer patients, as well as continuous assessment and understanding the risk factors for opioid misuse, will reduce the potential harm of opioids in cancer care, delegates at the European Pain Federation’s...
VALENCIA, 4 September 2019 – Gene studies reveal that about half of our sensitivity to pain is determined by our genetic makeup, with key differences caused by variant forms of individual genes, delegates at the European Pain Federation’s biennial Congress in...
VALENCIA, 3 September 2019 – Migraines affect around 15% of the general population (around 1.2bn people globally) and the disorder is three times more prevalent in women than in men, delegates at the European Pain Federation’s biennial Congress in Valencia, Spain,...
BRUSSELS, 2 September 2019 – New research into objective measurement of pain could be a ‘game-changer’ for patients, delegates at the European Pain Federation’s biennial Congress in Valencia, Spain, will be told. Until now, a patient’s experience of pain has always...
The World Physical Therapy Day takes place every year on the 8th of September. The theme of this year is chronic pain. The campaign highlights the role of physical therapists in helping people with chronic pain to take control of their condition, increase their...
“It’s easy for researchers to be confined by their research questions,” says E-G-G winner Joukje Oosterman, PhD. Joukje is a research psychologist with a specialty in the fields of ageing, pain and cognitive performance. However, in the development of the E-G-G...
SIP Belgium (SIP BE), composed by the Belgian Pain Society (BPS), the Flemish Patient Platform, the National Federation of Independent Health Insurance Funds (MLOZ), the National Institute for Health and Disability Insurance (RIZIV), the European Pain Federation...
I have attended the EFIC Pain School in Krakow in June 2019 and would like to thank everyone in the European and National associations for that possibility. All participants were warmly welcomed in Pain School by Professor Przewlocka and Professor Villanueva....
“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity.” – Louis Pasteur Like many researchers, E-G-G winner Jonas Zaman, PhD, moved around a lot for his studies – first completing his Psychology degree in Brussels, a Masters in Neuroscience in Maastricht,...
What is the role of dopamine, or a lack of dopamine, in the development of chronic pain? This was the question posed by Susanne Becker, PhD, one of the winners of the 2016 EFIC-Grünenthal Grant (E-G-G). The subsequent experiment used a dopamine receptor antagonist in...
The lack of qualified physicians to treat chronic pain is a challenge on which the SIP platform also focuses. Over the next 10 years, Francoise Thomas from the French Association Against Pain and a member of Pain Alliance Europe is hoping for more physicians to...
The Experimental Anaesthesiology Charité – Campus Benjamin Franklin in Berlin, is looking for candidates with enthusiasm and interest in mechanisms and treatment of pain. The group performs translational research on inflammatory and neuropathic pain and its...
