The #EFIC2025 Congress will include lectures, workshops and symposia, refresher courses and networking initiatives on all the pain-related domains – from basic research to daily clinical practice. This edition will put special focus on the connexions between pain and mental health disorders, and the importance of multidisciplinary care to not only alleviate the physical burden of pain, but also enhance the quality of life, physical and mental, of persons suffering pain conditions.
Members of the PAINSTORM team will be talking in the sessions listed below (please note the times are indicated in Central European Summer Time). The full scientific programme can be found here.
Thursday, April 24
14:00 [Clinical Masterclass] Risk factors for developing pain: implications for real-life clinical practice (Jan Vollert)
16:00 [Clinical Masterclass] Best Practices for the Management of Acute Low Back Pain (Annina Schmid)
Friday, April 25
14:00 [Plenary] Phenotyping chronic pain in population studies, and measuring associations with mental health (Blair Smith)
17:45 [Debate Workshops] The Pain Catastrophizing Debate (Geert Crombez)
Saturday, April 26
11:00 [Research Masterclass] Use of Routinely Collected Data and Real-World Experiments in Pain Research (Jan Vollert)
14:00 [Topical Workshop] Integrating Technology-based Therapies for Chronic Pain (Ben Seymour)
14:00 [Clinical Masterclass] Physical Activity and Multimorbidity – How to Bridge the Intention-Behavior Gap (Annick de Paepe)
16:00 [Topical Workshop] Spine-related leg pain (sciatica): unravelling complexity towards personalised care (Annina Schmid)
