IASP PAIN, March 2021

MARCH 2021

President’s Message

One year in the COVID-19 pandemic, we face an abundance of change not only within our own lives, but also within the health care system and pain field. As more developments about the pandemic and health affects on patients are discovered, IASP continues its mission to connect global pain professionals to stimulate and support the study of pain by sharing such information.

The recently published PAIN Reports special issue explores multiple aspects of COVID-19 and pain, including country-focused reports highlighting the impacts and challenges each country has faced. These articles grant close insight into the institutional and forced transition to telehealth care, patient-led research, and a focus on the basic and clinical science of COVID-19-related pain, neurological complications, and how the new pain syndromes compare to previously recognized post-viral pain and ME/CFS.

Just as IASP shares these peer-reviewed open access articles, I hope you take the liberty to share them with your friends and colleagues and ultimately further aid IASP’s mission and vision of connecting pain professionals around the world.

Claudia Sommer, MD

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TOP TOPICS

IASP Releases Position Statement on the Use of Cannabinoids to Treat Pain

In a recent statement, IASP said that due to a lack of evidence from high-quality research (view article collection), it does not endorse the general use of cannabinoids to treat pain. LEARN MORE

Save the Dates: Registration Opens 8 April

Register for a nine-session COVID-19 course and the IASP 2021 Virtual World Congress on Pain, beginning 8 April. LEARN MORE

Due 24 March: Submit a Late-Breaking Poster Abstract

Submissions for late-breaking poster abstract for IASP 2021 Virtual World Congress on Pain close Wednesday, 24 March. LEARN MORE

Apply for an IASP Grant: Applications Closing Soon

IASP Early Career Research Grant: Applications close 25 March

IASP Developing Countries Project Grants: Applications Close 8 April

IASP Collaborative Research Grants: Applications Close 15 April

IASP Member, Peter Goadsby, Awarded The Brain Prize 2021

Congratulations to Peter Goadsby for being awarded The Brain Prize 2021, the world’s largest brain research prize, worth 10 million Danish Kroner. LEARN MORE

New Belarus Chapter

The IASP Executive Committee approved the application for Belarusian Society for the Study of Pain (BSSP) to become a Chapter of IASP, and has granted the BSSP official chapter-in-formation status. LEARN MORE

Task Force Seeking Data and Information

The IASP Presidential Task Force is looking for data sets and information from pain studies that can be linked to the International Classification of Functioning (ICF). If you have such data or are aware of others who do, please contact ICF Task Force Chairs Rolf-Detlef Treede and Michiel Reneman.

PUBLICATIONS

PAIN, March 2021

The time course of attentional biases in pain: a meta-analysis of eye-tracking studies VIDEO

No pain, still gain (of function): the relation between sensory profiles and the presence or absence of self-reported pain in a large multicenter cohort of patients with neuropathy VIDEO

Examination of the clinical factors associated with attendance at emergency departments for chronic pain management and the cost of treatment relative to that of other significant medical conditions VIDEO

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PAIN Reports, Latest Articles

Momentary pain assessments reveal benefits of endoscopic discectomy: a prospective cohort study

The factor structure and subscale properties of the pain catastrophizing scale: are there differences in the distinctions?

Pain matters for central sensitization: sensory and psychological parameters in patients with fibromyalgia syndrome

Special Issue

COVID-19 and Pain, Special Issue Guest Editors, Michael Rowbotham, Lars Arendt-Nielsen

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CHAPTER SPOTLIGHT

German Pain Society

The German Pain Society celebrates interdisciplinarity at every level with members from diverse professional groups, including medical doctors, psychologists, physiotherapists, and nursing specialists. We live this interdisciplinarity in our Congresses by encouraging submissions from multidisciplinary speaker groups to ensure an enormous breadth of educational and growth opportunities.

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VIRTUAL SERIES ON PAIN & EXPO

LAST WEEK OF THIS EVENT!

25 March: IASP Data Blitz and Live Workshop

Join your colleagues for the last day of live sessions on 25 March, including a workshop with IASP Presidential Task Force members on cannabis and cannbinoid analgesia. LEARN MORE

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MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

IASP is turning the spotlight on members! Get to know your global colleagues, how they’re working towards global pain relief, and what the association means to them.

Interested in participating in the program? Contact Us

Vivianne Tawfik, MD, PhD

Dr. Vivianne Tawfik, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Stanford University Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative & Pain Medicine in the United States. Her specialty is pain medicine and she has been in the pain field for 18 years. Vivianne has been an IASP member for five years and has attended the IASP World Congress on Pain two times.