The European Pain Forum met yesterday in Brussels to discuss cooperation between organisations representing medical professionals and patients in the field of pain. The organisations aim to cooperate on education, research and advocacy projects related to pain on a voluntary basis.
Represented were European Academy of Neurology (Giorgio Cruccu), European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (Alan Cole), European Psychiatric Association (Geert Dom and Mari Fresu), European Region – World Confederation of Physical therapy (Carmen Suarez Serrano), European Federation of Psychologists Associations (Telmo Mourinho Baptista and Borrik Schjødt), European Headache Federation (A. Van Haren – Maassen van den Brink), European Society of Anaesthesiology (Andreas Sandner-Kieslin), Pain Alliance Europe (Marian Nichols), Council of Occupational Therapists for European Countries (Stephanie Saenger), European CancerCoalition (Richard Price) and European Pain Federation (Vittoria Carraro, Bart Morlion and Thomas Toelle).
