An overview of EFIC Pain school in Klagenfurt 2019
EFIC Pain School took place in Pörtschah, near Klagenfurt in September 2019. This pain school received students from different countries: from Croatia to Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Russia, Greece, Bulgaria, Moldavia, Germany, and Norway. Among the participants,...
SIP @EFIC 2019 Congress: an opportunity to share experiences and move forward with SIP activities
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...
EFIC open letter to Stella Kyriakides, Health Commissioner-designate
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,...
PATIENTS CAN REDUCE LEVELS OF PAIN SIMPLY BY UNDERSTANDING HOW IT
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...
MULTI-MODAL PAIN TREATMENT FOR CANCER PAIN REDUCES POTENTIAL HARM OF LONG-TERM OPIOID USE
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...
Press release: unlocking the secrets of how genetic variation affects perception of pain could lead to personalised medicines
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...
WOMEN ‘THREE TIMES MORE PRONE TO MIGRAINE’ THAN MEN
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,...
PRESS RELEASE: OBJECTIVE PAIN MEASURMENT COULD BE A ‘GAME-CHANGER’ FOR PATIENTS
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 8th of September is the World Physical Therapy Day!
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...
Meet E-G-G Symposium Speaker: Joukje Oosterman, PhD
“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...
Did you hear about SIP Belgium Joint Statement?
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...
Great Experience in EFIC Krakow Pain School 2019
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....
Meet E-G-G Winner 2018: Jonas Zaman, PhD
“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,...
