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....