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Access fact sheets on various topics of pain prevention, management, and treatment from IASP’s previous Global Year initiatives.


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Introduction to the IASP 2025 Global Year

Introduction to the IASP 2025 Global Year: Pain Management, Research, and Education in Low- and Middle-Income Settings Authors:  Margarita Calvo, PhD, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile 1,2 Saurab Sharma, […]

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Pain In Women

  Women* (or those assigned female at birth) are more likely to experience almost all forms of chronic pain than men. Additionally, female anatomy and physiology are associated with forms […]

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Pain in Men

  Pain in Boys and Men Across the Lifespan Boys are at increased risk for injuries during childhood (Morongiello et al., 2021) and men are also reported to engage in […]

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Pain and Gender Diversity – Beyond the Binary

  Sex and Gender Biomedical understandings of sex and gender have traditionally been centered around a binary framework, conceptualizing sex as either male or female and gender as either man […]

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Engendering Pain: Psychosocial Mechanisms Underlying Sex-related Differences in Pain

  Psychosocial Mechanisms that Account for Sex and Gender-Related Differences in Pain There are sex and gender-related differences in human pain experiences. For example, especially after puberty, females/women are more […]

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