The goal of the Global Year advocacy campaign is to, each year, focus on a special aspect of pain and to increase awareness within the pain community and beyond. The aim of this year’s campaign is to increase the awareness of clinicians, scientists and the public of our accumulating pain knowledge and how this may be used for the benefit of those living with pain.
Aim
- Increase the worldwide awareness of clinicians, scientists and the public about our accumulating pain knowledge
- Bridge the gap between pre-clinical studies and clinical practice
- Raise awareness about challenges in designing new and more predictive pre-clinical studies and more effective clinical trials
- Provide useful and actionable information, when possible, to our stakeholder, patients, clinicians and basic researchers about challenges and opportunities in translating our pain knowledge into practice
Objectives
- Identify barriers and propose solutions for improving the predictive ability of pre-clinical research
- Provide an update on lessons learned from studies of rare and common human genetic pain variants and how they informed our understanding of more common disorders
- Provide an update on the deep phenotyping of patients and how this is implemented for patient stratification regarding clinical trials and targeted therapy
- Provide an update on the use of new physical and psychological approaches and ideas for the treatment of pain
- Provide an update on new practices for better design of clinical studies
- Facilitate and improve communication among the stakeholders, patients, clinicians and researchers
- Highlight the need to reduce the gap in translating pain knowledge into practice between rich and poor nations
- Identify evidence-based guidelines in the field of pain treatment and exemplify challenges in implementation
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