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The International Association for the Study of Pain

List of Topics


Please select the track that is most appropriate for your Symposia, Workshop or Panel Discussion when completing your submission. 

A Secondary Topic is optional.
Selection of Topics 
  • Assessment, Diagnosis, and Measurement of Pain
  • Pain treatment
  • Pain mechanisms
  • Pain neurobiology
  • Imaging
  • Pain registries 
  • Access to care
  • Evidence, Clinical Trials, Systematic Review, Guidelines, and Implementation Science
  • Health service development
  • Education, 
  • Patient engagement
  • Quality improvement
  • Complementary and Alternative Therapies
  • Interventional Therapies
  • Rehabilitation and Physical therapies
  • Nursing/nursing science
  • Psychosocial / Biopsychosocial
  • Disparities

  • Sex differences
  • Acute pain
  • Chronic pain
  • Acute to chronic transition
  • Pain and opioids
  • COVID-19 impact
  • Neonatal pain 
  • Cancer pain
  • Perioperative pain
  • Procedural pain
  • Inflammatory
  • Neuropathic
  • Musculoskeletal/joint/back
  • Oral/Craniofacial/headache
  • Visceral
  • Intellectual, Developmental and Functional Disability 
  • Epidemiology