Mission Statement:
The Purposes of the New Zealand Pain Society are exclusively educational, scientific and charitable in nature:
To improve the management of patients with acute and persistent pain.
To bring together basic scientists, health professionals and others who have an interest in pain research and management.
To foster and encourage research into pain mechanisms and pain syndromes.
To promote education and training in the field of pain.
To promote and facilitate the dissemination of new information in the field of pain.
To promote and sponsor an annual New Zealand Scientific Meeting of the Society and such other meetings as may be useful or desirable for the advancement of the purposes of the Society.
To encourage the formation of regional associations for the study and treatment of pain.
To encourage the adoption of a uniform classification, nomenclature and definition regarding pain and pain syndromes.
To inform the general public of the results and implications of current research in the area.
To advise national and regional agencies of standards relating to the use of drugs, appliances and other procedures in the therapy of pain.
To encourage the development of a national data bank and of a uniform records system with respect to information relating to pain mechanisms, syndromes and management.
To engage in such other activities as may be incidental to or in furtherance of the aforementioned purpose.
Disciplines Represented:
- Anesthetists
- Dentists
- GPs
- Musculoskeletal Medicine
- Occupational Medicine
- Palliative Care
- Osteopaths/li>
- Psychiatrists
- Registered Nurses
- Physiotherapists
- Occupational Therapists
- Rehabilitation medicine
- Researchers
- Rheumatologist
- Pain Physician
- Surgeons
- Students