PAIN, MIND, AND MOVEMENT LEADERSHIP
Chair
Anabela Silva (Portugal)
Vice Chair
Tasha Stanton (Australia)
Past Chair
Felipe Reis (Brazil)
Secretary
Eva Huysmans (Belgium)
Treasurer
Rodrigo Rizzo (Brazil)
PAIN, MIND, AND MOVEMENT SOCIAL MEDIA
Pain, Mind, and Movement Mission and Vision
The Pain, Mind, and Movement Special Interest Group aims to act as a multidisciplinary forum of communication to:
- Improve the standard of care provided to patients with disabling pain to improve physical and psychological functioning and increase participation in daily life.
Empower health professionals and patients to play active roles in the rehabilitation process. - Encourage basic and clinical research on how mind and movement affect disabling pain.
- Facilitate the translation of evidence into clinical practice and mediate the implementation of new diagnostics and treatments.
- Foster communication between researchers, clinicians, and patients to drive research and stimulate international study.
Pain, Mind, and Movement Awards
Best Pain, Mind and Movement Publication Award
This award recognizes PhD students and early-career researchers (up to 3 years post-PhD) for the top paper from a PMM SIG member that integrates pain, mind, and movement in that research.
This award aims to create additional means to value and publicize young scientists’ work and facilitate networking. The award includes a $1,000 USD monetary prize. Up to two honourable mentions will also be awarded a monetary prize of $250 USD. The winner and honourable mentions will also be asked to present their work to the IASP community during a PMM SIG-sponsored webinar.
Submissions should be sent by email to: pain.mind.movement@gmail.com
Submission Deadline: 27 February 2026
Pain, Mind, and Movement Resources:
Recommended Websites
Recommended Podcasts
Recommended YouTube Videos
Tame The Beast — It's time to rethink persistent pain
Recommended Studies
- Fear in the context of pain: Lessons learned from 100 years of fear conditioning research Meulders ABehav Res Ther. 2020 Aug;131:103635.
- The fear-avoidance model of pain Vlaeyen JWS, Crombez G, Linton SJPain. 2016 Aug;157(8):1588-1589.
- Beliefs about the body and pain: the critical role in musculoskeletal pain management Caneiro JP, Bunzli S, O'Sullivan PBraz J Phys Ther. 2021 Jan-Feb;25(1):17-29