ASM 2019 Gold Coast – Explore The Gold Coast
We are thrilled to welcome you to the Gold Coast, Australia for APS 2019! Australia’s Gold Coast is a leading tourism, business and events city boasting arguably one of the best lifestyles in the...
View ArticleAPS Pain in Childhood SIG – MAY19
By Dr Arno Ebner, MD PhD, FRACP, Paediatrician, Cairns, QLD Dear all Welcome to my second blog of the year. I have just been to the fantastic full day pre-conference workshop at the 2019 APS conference...
View ArticleIntersubjectivity in Clinical Encounters
By: John Quintner, retired rheumatologist, Melanie Galbraith, APA Pain physiotherapist, Horst Ruthrof, FICI, FAHA, Emeritus Professor in English and Philosophy at Murdoch University, Perth, Western...
View ArticleIs chronic pain really a disease?
By John Quintner & Milton Cohen Background Over forty years ago John Bonica [1976] first made the proposal to accord disease status to chronic pain. He regarded intractable pain as “a destructive...
View ArticleCommunications, Advocacy, and The Joshua Tree: A Chat with Beth Darnall
Beth Darnall, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Stanford University, USA. Her research examines different ways to best treat and...
View ArticleCops for Kids and the Australian Pain Society: Working Together to Support...
Cops for Kids (CFK) began in 2006 when a group of police officers in Port Adelaide, South Australia, wanted to support the sick children and families of their colleagues. These officers began donating...
View ArticleThe Uncontrolled Spread of Needle Mania
By John Quintner In a truly remarkable editorial, Dommerholt et al. [2019] wonder whether there is any point to the practice of dry needling (DN). They draw attention to the popularity of this form of...
View ArticlePersonalised Treatment, Collaboration, and Puzzles: A Chat with Nanna Finnerup
Nanna Finnerup, MD, DrMedSc, is a Professor in pain research at the Danish Pain Research Center, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Denmark and Chair of the Neuropathic Pain Special...
View ArticleFrom Christian Science to the Placebo Effect: A Chat with Tor Wager
Tor Wager, PhD, is a Professor of psychology and neuroscience and the Director of the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Colorado, Bolder. Together with his lab, Wager...
View ArticleNew Sensation: Chronic Pain as a New Concept for the International...
Enormous collaborative effort sees chronic pain added to international disease coding system The following is a summary of a talk given by Professor Milton Cohen AM of St Vincent’s Clinical School,...
View ArticleBack to Basics (Pain Research).
Note: The following is a summary of the Australian Pain Society Basic Pain Research Special Interest Group (SIG) Pre-Conference Workshop. The Basic Pain Research SIG aims to improve, share, and promote...
View ArticleUnderstanding Placebo and Nocebo Effects: A Chat with Ben Colagiuri
This article was published by Pain Research Forum on 19 June 2019 and is reproduced here with permission. Ben Colagiuri, PhD, is an associate professor in the Faculty of Science and Leader of the...
View ArticleAustralian Pain Society 2019 Rising Star: A Chat with Arjun Muralidharan
This article was published by Pain Research Forum on 10 July 2019 and is reproduced here with permission. Arjun Muralidharan, PhD, is a Research Fellow in the Charles Perkins Centre at The University...
View ArticleFrom a Spider Venom to an Analgesic in Mice
At the 2019 annual gathering of the Australian Pain Society, Glenn King described how research on spider venoms could lead to a better understanding of pain mechanisms and new treatments. This article...
View ArticleFocus and Frank: A Conversation with Sean Mackey
Sean Mackey, PhD, is the Chief of the Division of Pain Medicine and Redlich Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Neurosciences and Neurology at Stanford University, USA. His...
View Article“Everybody Has Won and All Must Have Prizes”: Dodo Birds in Psychological...
Do different psychological interventions to alleviate pain work through similar or unique mechanisms? This article was published by Pain Research Forum on 02 October 2019 and is reproduced here with...
View ArticleFibromyalgia and Neuroinflammation: Shall the twain ever meet?
Apologies to Rudyard Kipling, “The Ballad of East and West” (1889). Authors: John Quintner and Melanie Galbraith What is fibromyalgia? Fibromyalgia (pain in the muscles and fibrous tissues) is the name...
View ArticleASM 2020 Hobart – International Keynote Speaker: Dr Janet Bultitude
We are honoured to introduce the International Keynote Speakers for the 2020 Australian Pain Society 40th Annual Scientific Meeting to be held at the Hotel Grand Chancellor, Hobart next April. Please...
View ArticleASM 2020 Hobart – International Keynote Speaker: Professor John F. Cryan
We are honoured to introduce the International Keynote Speakers for the 2020 Australian Pain Society 40th Annual Scientific Meeting to be held at the Hotel Grand Chancellor, Hobart next April. Please...
View ArticleASM 2020 Hobart – International Keynote Speaker: Dr Erin E. Krebs
We are honoured to introduce the International Keynote Speakers for the 2020 Australian Pain Society 40th Annual Scientific Meeting to be held at the Hotel Grand Chancellor, Hobart next April. Please...
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