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This week, IASP is focusing on rare conditions in pain for #PainAwarenessMonth. Revisit this episode of the IASP-PRF podcast for where NAPS-PRF Correspondent Madelene Ho spoke with Calia Torres about her research in psychosocial interventions for understudied populations, including sickle-cell patients https://bit.ly/3Z3CZBg

This week’s PAIN Featured Figure is an illustration of the dorsal ramus’s branches at an exemplary lumbar level. Learn more in Guven et al.’s article in PAIN https://bit.ly/3yK4lSt #painawarenessmonth #painisreal #SolvePainTogether

We continue to explore chronic pain this week in observance of #PainAwarenessMonth. Check out this US Pain Foundation Health Hack video, "Understanding Life with Chronic Pain: Pain by the Numbers," and tell us what you think. How can we help both patients and practitioners better understand the lived experience of pain? https://bit.ly/4ggBlCw #SolvePainTogether

Check out brief reports on chronic pain during Pain Awareness Month, like “The role of cytokines and chemokines in the maintenance of chronic pain—a pilot study” by Lassen et al. in #PainReports https://bit.ly/4aRfGxL #painawarenessmonth #painisreal #SolvePainTogether

Living with pain can quite literally be a “pain in the neck.” But most acute back and neck pain usually gets better without special treatment. For severe or chronic back and neck pain, special programs can be designed to help manage disabling pain. Check out these resources on living with and treating chronic back and neck pain this #PainAwarenessMonth. https://bit.ly/4dWvYHq #SolvePainTogether

Register for the 17 September Pathway to Publication and Impact Webinar, featuring Hannah Gennis, PhD, Allison Barry, DPhil, Guillermo Ceniza Bordallo, and Gabriel Reigner speaking about publishing in PAIN https://bit.ly/4gf7WbS

As we observe Pain Awareness Month this week by focusing on chronic pain, read this Papers of the Week pick about the relationship between chronic neuropathic pain in whiplash-associated disorders and metabolite concentrations in anterior cingulate and dorsolateral PFC brain regions https://bit.ly/3MSGovP #PRF #painawarenessmonth #painisreal #SolvePainTogether

“I wish I knew then what I know now” This week, observe Pain Awareness Month with PAIN by taking a close look at sex and gender disparities in pain. This featured image comes from Amelia Mardon et al. presenting four key pain science education concepts valued by female individuals with persistent pelvic pain. Read this, and other articles relating to the 2024 IASP Global Year about Sex and Gender Disparities in Pain, in PAIN: https://bit.ly/3MfauJy #painawarenessmonth #painisreal #IASP #GY2024 #SolvePainTogether

As we near the end of this first week of Pain Awareness Month dedicated to sex and gender disparities in pain, be sure to read the 2024 Global Year about Sex and Gender Disparities in Pain fact sheets: https://bit.ly/48NhRAV -Biological Mechanisms Underlying Sex Differences in Pain -Engendering Pain: Psychosocial Mechanisms Underlying Sex-related Differences in Pain -Gender Differences in Chronic Pain Conditions -Intersectionality and Pain Across the Life Course -Overview of Sex and Gender Differences in Human Pain -Sex/Gender Biases in Pain Research and Clinical Practice #painawarenessmonth #painisreal #IASP #GY2024 #SolvePainTogether

September is Pain Awareness Month, and this week, Pain Reports is highlighting sex and gender disparities in pain with the research article “Social health in young women with chronic pain” by Boggero et al. Read the article and share your thoughts with #painawarenessmonth #painisreal #SolvePainTogether #IASP #GY2024 https://bit.ly/4bbc2P3