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North American Pain School

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Quebec Pain Registry

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Understanding chronic low back pain

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Serge Marchand named Scientific Director of the FRQ-S

Congratulations to Serge Marchand for his nomination as Scientific Director of the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Santé, annonced today by government of Québec. Serge Marchand is full Professor at Université Sherbrooke, and a researcher affiliated to the Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke (CHUS). He works in a group on Pain and Inflammation, an axis he has created and developed himself over the last few years. His work have shed light on the neurophysiological mechanisms responsible for the development and persistence of chronic pain.

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Sylvine Cottin shows peripheral nerve field stimulation helps alleviate pain

New results by Sylvine Cottin, Université Laval, shows that peripheral nerve field stimulation is an effective means to alleviate overall pain by over 50% in patients with low back pain. The results were presented at the 2017 annual meeting of the North American Neuromodulation Society. Read more about this study on the Pain Medicine News website:

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Interview with Catherine Ferland on Salut Bonjour about Essentrics training

Listen to a recent interview with Catherine Ferland on the television show Salut Bonjour, in which she discusses the positive effects of Essentrics training for people suffering from chronic pain. View this interview by Marie-Ève Gosemick, Well-Being correspondent, here (in French only):

http://tva.canoe.ca/emissions/salutbonjour/chroniques/detail/l-entrainement-essentrics-et-ses-bienfaits

Jeff Mogil explains the placebo effect in Vox

Read a recent article in Vox in which Jeffrey Mogil explains that “the placebo response is growing bigger over time,” but only in the US. This effect helps explain why fewer and fewer new pain drugs were getting through double-blind placebo control trials, the gold standard for testing a drug’s effectiveness.

European Health Ministers call for action on access to treatment for patients suffering from chronic pain

The QPRN applauds the statement by European Health Ministers calling for action on access to treatment for patients suffering from chronic pain. Read the statement here: https://www.sip-platform.eu/press-area/article/a-major-step-forward-for-pain-patients-health-ministers-call-for-action-on-access-to-treatment-for-patients-suffering-from-chron

New videos on the QPRN YouTube Channel

We invite you to visit the QPRN YouTube Channel to view two new education resources:

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Recent publications

Dubrovsky, B, M N. Janal, G J. Lavigne, D A. Sirois, P E. Wigren, L Nemelivsky, A C. Krieger, and K G. Raphael. "Depressive symptoms account for differences between self-reported versus polysomnographic assessment of sleep quality in women with myofascial TMD." J Oral Rehabil (2017).
Beauchet, Olivier, Gilles Allali, Harmehr Sekhon, Joe Verghese, Sylvie Guilain, Jean-Paul Steinmetz, Reto W. Kressig, John M. Barden, Tony Szturm, Cyrille P. Launay, Sébastien Grenier, Louis Bherer, Teresa Liu-Ambrose, Vicky L. Chester, Michele L. Callisaya, Velandai Srikanth, Guillaume Léonard, Anne-Marie De Cock, Ryuichi Sawa, Gustavo Duque, Richard Camicioli, and Jorunn L. Helbostad. "Guidelines for Assessment of Gait and Reference Values for Spatiotemporal Gait Parameters in Older Adults: The Biomathics and Canadian Gait Consortiums Initiative." Front Hum Neurosci 11 (2017): 353.
Moy, Jamie K., Arkady Khoutorsky, Marina N. Asiedu, Bryan J. Black, Jasper L. Kuhn, Paulino Barragán-Iglesias, Salim Megat, Michael D. Burton, Carolina C. Burgos-Vega, Ohannes K. Melemedjian, Scott Boitano, Josef Vagner, Christos G. Gkogkas, Joseph J. Pancrazio, Jeffrey S. Mogil, Gregory Dussor, Nahum Sonenberg, and Theodore J. Price. "The MNK-eIF4E Signaling Axis Contributes to Injury-Induced Nociceptive Plasticity and the Development of Chronic Pain." J Neurosci 37, no. 31 (2017): 7481-7499.

Quebec Pain Registry Publications

Choinière, M, M A. Ware, M G. Pagé, A Lacasse, H Lanctôt, N Beaudet, A Boulanger, P Bourgault, C Cloutier, L Coupal, Y De Koninck, D Dion, P Dolbec, L Germain, V Martin, P Sarret, Y Shir, M-C Taillefer, B Tousignant, A Trépanier, and R Truchon. "Development and Implementation of a Registry of Patients Attending Multidisciplinary Pain Treatment Clinics: The Quebec Pain Registry." Pain Res Manag 2017 (2017): 8123812.
Giladi, Hili, Whitney Scott, Yoram Shir, and Michael J. L. Sullivan. "Rates and Correlates of Unemployment Across Four Common Chronic Pain Diagnostic Categories." J Occup Rehabil 25, no. 3 (2015): 648-57.
Lacasse, Anaïs, Mark A. Ware, Marc Dorais, Hélène Lanctôt, and Manon Choinière. "Is the Quebec provincial administrative database a valid source for research on chronic non-cancer pain?" Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf (2015).
Lacasse, Anaïs, Mark A. Ware, Patricia Bourgault, Hélène Lanctôt, Marc Dorais, Aline Boulanger, Christian Cloutier, Yoram Shir, and Manon Choinière. "Accuracy of Self-reported Prescribed Analgesic Medication Use: Linkage between the Quebec Pain Registry and the Quebec Administrative Prescription Claims Databases." Clin J Pain (2015).
Giladi, Hili, Manon Choinière, Mary-Ann Fitzcharles, Mark A. Ware, Xianming Tan, and Yoram Shir. "Pregabalin for chronic pain: does one medication fit all?" Curr Med Res Opin 31, no. 7 (2015): 1403-11.

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