EFIC Pain School on Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine

25– 27 June 2026

Course Organisers: Efthimios Kouloulas (EDPM, EFIC Academy member,Greece), Physiatriki Pain Management Center, Larissa, Greece, Indre Bileviciute Ljungar (Chair, EFIC Education Committee; Dept. Clinical Sciences Danderyd University Hospital, Karolinska Institutet. Sweden)

Faculty:

Indre Bileviciute Ljunga, EDPM, PRM & Pain medicine physician, assoc. professor in Rehabilitation Medicine, Chair EFIC Education Committee, Stockholm, Sweden
Luis Garcia-Larrea, President EFIC, professor in Clinical Neurophysiology, Lyon, France
Daniel Ciampi de Andrade, specialist in Neurology, Aalborg Univ Hospital and CMAP, Denmark
Eleni Chrona, Consultant Anesthesiologist, Director Anesthesiology Dpt, General Hopsital “St Panteleemon”, Nikaia – Piraeus, President of the Hellenic Algology Society (HAS)
Metaxia Bareka, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Faculty of medicine, University Hospital of Larissa
Katerina Bouzia, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Faculty of medicine, University Hospital of Larissa
Eleni Arnaoutoglou, Professor of Anesthesiology, Faculty of medicine, University Hospital of Larissa
Marianthi Varveri, Consultant Anesthesiologist & Pain physician, General Hospital “Papageorgiou”, Larissa
Sofia Poulopoulou, Consultant Anesthesiologist & Pain Physician, “St Savvas” General Oncology Hospital, Athens
Steven Stanos, PRM & Pain medicine physician, Head of Pain services, Swedish Hospital, Seattle, Washington, USA
Efstathios Boviatsis, Professor of Neurosurgery, Head of 2nd Neurosurgery Dpt, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Attikon Hospital, Athens,
Efthimios Kouloulas, EDPM, SFEBPRM, PRM & Pain medicine physician, Director of “Physiatriki pain management center”, assoc. scientist in PRM, 2nd Neurosurgery Dpt, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Attikon Hospital, Athens,
Nikolaos Sorras, EDPM, PRM & Pain medicine physician, Director of PRM Dpt, 401 General Army Hospital, Athens
Markos Sgantzos, Professor of Anatomy & Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Medical School, University of Thessaly, President of Hellenic Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Society

Focus of this EFIC Pain School:

Comprehensive, team-based management of chronic pain requires both pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches as well as multidisciplinary pain rehabilitation when indicated. Careful assessment of an individual’s pain complains, a biopsychosocially- based history, focused physical examination, symptoms´ impact on functioning and activities are important to support our decisions what drugs should be prescribed and what physical and rehabilitation methods are indicated.

Physical and rehabilitation medicine should be complementary in chronic pain management and in some cases might be the only one which patient wants to try or is indicated due to drug intolerance and comorbidities. Today, physical and rehabilitation medicine combines both “passive” and “active” treatments in terms of pain relief and behavioral changes to enhance patient´s functioning and activity levels.

The aim of this joint pain school is to increase awareness of possibilities to use physical and rehabilitation medicine in chronic pain management with and without pharmacological treatments and to provide practical skills when using evidence-based treatments, including multimodal pain rehabilitation.

Please see the preliminary programme here.